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Chronicles of the Rebellion of 1861 



INTRODUCTION. 

The ereuts connected with the Secession 
movements of the Southern States, and 
■which roused the people of the North 
American continent to the highest state of 
political excitement, will be long held in 
remembrance. The spectacle of a people 
60 happy and prosperous — living under a 
Constitution which it was their pride 
and boast to regard as the most glorious 
nnder the sun — a Constitution which, 
from the expansive character of its prin- 
ciples and provisions, conferred upon its 
citizens a greater amount of political 
power, and secured to them a larger ex- 
tent of civil and religious liberty, than the 
subjects of any other government — repub- 
lican or monarchical — plunged into all 
the dire calamities, the horrors and the 
sufferings of Civil War, is painful in the 
extreme. But the ultimate result must 
be beneficial to the country at large. 
Although its commercial progress may be 
arrested in its onward career, and the de- 
velopment of its agricultural, manufac- 
turing and mineral resources, for a time 
be neglected, the Constitution and laws 
will conic out of the fiery ordeal purged 
and purified of every corruption which 
time has attached to the governmental 
system of the United States. 

The patriot, the philanthropist, and the 
statesman, will dwell with feelings of 
attention and interest upon each and 
every phase of the great struggle, and 
from their careful study be more than 
ever convinced of the greatness and su- 
preme excellence of the federal govern- 
ment and the legislative enactments 
framed and promulgated for its conduct 
and guidance. The form of a republican 
government will meet with a more gen- 



eral sanction, and the dynasties of the old 
world be taught to entire conviction 
that " vox poputP' is '• vox Dei." More- 
over, stript of all the vague plausibilities 
and metaphysical subtleties put forth by 
the Secessionists, it will be clearly and 
indisputably demonstrated that the con- 
test of 18G1, between the North and the 
South, must be regarded as a quarrel be- 
tween civil and religious liberty on the 
one hand, and political despotism of the • 
blackest character on the other. 

For a long series of years the lead- 
ing statesmen among the Secessionists 
planned their grand scheme of treason to 
the United States. South Carolina took 
the lead in fomenting rebellion. To put 
forth an apparent justification of Seces- 
sion, her leading politicians trumped up 
charges against the people of the Free 
States, imputed dishonest and bloodthirsty 
motives to Northern citizens, and boldly 
avowed that their designs were nothing 
less than robbing them of their political 
rights, destroying their domestic institu- 
tion — slavery — and treating the Southern 
States as a subjugated province. For 
these reasons, the fiicts and incidents of 
the struggle, from^first to last, must be 
interesting to every one who has the least 
pretension to patriotism, and desires to be 
thoroughly posted upon the affairs of the 
country. Their faithful narration in the 
following pages will prove useful to every 
one who bestows upon them even a cur- 
sory perusal, causing them to be carefully 
preserved for consultation and reference 
in after years. 

In discharging the duties which we 
have undertaken, we will strictly adhere 
to facts, and, should we be led to use 
occasionally expressions apparently harsh, 
it will not be from any desire to vilify the 



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Southern Secessionists, Ijut simply because 
the stern realities of the exciting period 
of which we write, and the political ini- 
quity of the revolters, demand that we 
should he candid, and exhibit in all its 
criminal deformity the conduct of a mis- 
guided people, who have placed the 
country in social jeopardy, rendered it 
unprosperous, and, for a time, banished 
peace and happiness from the land. Al- 
though somewhat unwilling to drag in 
the question of slavery in the discussion 
of the several topics involved in the sub- 
ject matter of this volume, we cannot 
render our tusk complete without a refer- 
ence thereto. We shall, however, bo as 
moderate as possible upon a point so 
peculiarly tender, as the merits of that 
great question will allow. 



CHAPTER I. 

THE POSITION OF THE PRO AND ANTI- 
SLAVERY PARTIES SET FORTH. 

That the troubles of 18G1 resulted in 
the wide-spread difference of opinion and 
the political animosity and enmity en- 
gendered thereby, on the subject of free 
and compulsory labor — in other words, 
slavery — cannot be disputed. In all the 
platforms which have been adopted at 
National or State conventions it has been 
more or less brought forward. Both 
parties — Democrat and Republican — have 
been alike at fault — if a constant agitation 
of the question merits blame — for each 
made reference thereto, and contended 
for the supremacy of their respective 
views in the preambles and resolves adopt- 
ed as their platforms. For the better un- 
derstanding of the position [assumed by 
the Secessionists, it will not be out of 
place to notice in detail the principles set 
forth in all the national platforms adopted 
for the last twenty years. 

In the year 1839, the Abolitionists held 
a convention at Warsaw, N. Y., for the 
purpose of endeavoring to elect as presi- 
dent of the United States, a candidate 
favorable to abolition principles, and re- 
solved that, in its judgment, " every con- 
sideration of duty and expediency which 
ought to control the action of Christian 
freemen, requires of the Abolitionists of 
the United States to organize a distinct 
and independent political party, embrac- 
ing all necessary means for nominating 



candidates for office, and sustaining them 
by public suffrage." The gentlemen elect- 
ed by this convention for president and 
vice-president, declined the proposed hon- 
or, and the party was unsuccessful in its 
first effort on behalf of abolitionism. The 
attitude assumed by the Convention assem 
bled at Warsaw brought out a strong op- 
position to the sentiments adopted in re- 
ference to the slavery question. Accord- 
ingly the Democratic National Convention, 
which met at Baltimore on the 5th of 
May, 1840, resolved, " that all efforts by 
Abolitionists or others made to induce 
Congress to interfere with the question of 
slavery, or take incipient steps in rela- 
tion thereto, are calculated to lead to 
dangerous and alarming consequences, 
and that all such efforts have a tendency 
to diminish the happiness of the people, 
and endanger the stability and perma- 
nency of the Union." Thus, for the first 
time did the Abolitionists and Pro-slavery 
parties join issue upon that grand pro- 
position — the agitation of which in no 
small degree brought about the perilous 
and troubled times of Avhich we write — 
" the power of Congress under the Con- 
stitution to interfere with or control the 
domestic institutions of the several States, 
such States being the sole and proper 
judges of everything pertaining to their 
own affairs, not prohibited by the Consti- 
tution." 

It is, however, worthy of remark, that 
the grand movers in the rebellion of 18G1 
manifested a dislike of federal authority 
and control, as the nullification schemes 
put forth by South Carolina and A'irginia 
in 1832 and 1833 plainly attest. Thanks 
to the fidelity and decision of Gen. Jack- 
son, the then jiroject of disunion was nip- 
ped in the bud, and hence the change of 
tactics adopted at the Baltimore Conven- 
tion first quoted. They had learned to 
fear the influence and power of the 
Northern Democracy, and as they could 
not successfully carry out a policy of 
open assault against it and the Union, the 
expedient of sapping and mining both 
was determined upon. In this we have 
a key to the motives which induced Mr. 
Calhoun, and politicians of his school, to 
join the regular democratic party in 1837 
— a party which they abhorred and open- 
ly stigmatized for the four previous years. 
The inspired writings contain an injunc- 
tion : "Be ye wise as serpents but harm- 
less as doves." This the original Seces- 
sionists imitated with no small success. 



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AVhcn they made their way into the coun- 
cils of the National Democractic Jjarty, 
which, as already noted, took place in 
1837, they lost no time in putting into 
operation such schemes as would enable 
them to carry out their original designs. 
Like Homoeopathic physicians, they com- 
menced by administering small doses, in 
fact, merely preparing the constitution of 
that body politic for the great denoue- 
ment which they had in view. At the 
outset they confined themselves to tbe 
simple modification of the Democratic 
party, but subsequently remodeled it more 
and more in harmony with their peculiar 
ideas and principles. 

These are not vague assertions. The 
history of the Democratic party from the 
year 1837 until ISOO, affords innumerable 
proofs of the accuracy of our statements. 
Suffice it at present to say that the war 
with Jlexico and the annexation of Texas 
were results arising from the " pursuit of 
aims purely Southern and sectional,'' that 
" it was to subserve Southern, and eventu- 
ally disunion purposes, that the Missouri 
Compromise was rcpjealed, and all the 
evil energy of Leeomptonism put into 
operation."'"* 

But to return to the National Conven- 
tions. We find tliat the Abolitionists in 
1843, under a new name — the Liljcral 
party — met at Buffalo on the 30th of A'l- 
gust, and there proclaimed, that " the 
Liberal party has not been organized 
merely for the overthrow of slavery; its 
first decided effort must indeed be directed 
against slaveholding — as the grossest and 
most revolting manifestations of despot- 
ism." And again, they also declared, and 
"gave it to be distinctly understood by 
this nation and the world, that, as Aboli- 
tionists, considering that the strength of 
our cause lies in its righteousness, and 
our hope for it in conformity to the laws 
of God and our respect for the rights of 
MAN, we owe it to the Sovereign Ruler of 
the universe, as a proof of our allegiance 
to him, in all our civil relations and offices, 
whether as private citizens or as public 
functionaries, sworn to support the Consti- 
tution of the United States, to regard and 
treat the third clause of the fourth article 
of that instrument, whenever applied to 
the case of a fugitive slave, as utterly null 
and void, and, consequently, as form inn- 
no part of the Constitution of the United 
States, whenever we are called upon or 

* PaiiisMi Leader. 



sworn to support it."'* This was, no 
doubt, strong language, and well calcu- 
lated to irritate the people of the South. 
The Convention, however, deemed it 
proper to put forth an apologetic reason 
for its adoption, and therefore declared 
" that the peculiar patronage and support 
hitherto extended to slavery and slave- 
holding by the general government ought 
to be immediately withdrawn, and the ex- 
ample of national influence and authority 
ought to be arrayed on the side of liberty 
and free labor." 

The next great " platform'" was that 
adopted at the Free Democratic Conven- 
tion in 1848. This body admitted the 
right of the slave owners to manage their 
own affairs as they pileascd, and contended 
tliat " Congress has no more right to make 
a slave than make a king ; no more power 
to institute or establish slavery, than to 
establish monarchy ; no such power can 
be found among those specifically con- 
ferred by the Constitution, or derived by 
just implication from them." The object 
of this resolution was to frustrate the de- 
signs of the Southern party, who, at this 
time, were wielding considerable influ- 
ence, not only in the National Conven- 
tions and Congress, but in a great degree 
nionopolizing all the important and lucra- 
tive positions in the gift of the national 
government. Passing on to 1852, we find 
the Whig party acquiescing in the pro- 
visions of the slave law, and their candi- 
date. Gen. Scott, declaring that he was 
" convinced that harmony or good-will 
between the different quarters of our 
broad country is essential to the present 
and the future interest of the Eepublic, 
that can know no North and no South." 
He then adds : ■' I should neither counte- 
nance nor tolerate any sedition, disorder, 
faction, or resistance to the laws of the 
Union, on any pretext, in any part of the 
land." Little did this great man think, 
when he gave expression to such patriotic 
sentiments, that nine years afterwards he 
would be called upon to do the very thing 
he somewhat obscurely foreshadowed — 
put down " sedition, disorder, faction, and 
resistance to the law of the Union." It 
was the promulgation of this sentiment 
which rendered Gen. Scott odious in the 

' The fourth article of the Constitution of the United 
States reads thus : " The United States shall guaran- 
tee to every State in this Union a republican form of 
government, and tliall protect each of them against 
invasion, and on application of the legislature or of 
the executive (where the iPgislature cannot be con- 
vened), against domestic violence." 



CHBOJaCLES 01 THE REBELLIOX OF 1S61 



eres of the Southemers. When thej 
Bhoold maturelT hatch their sehemes c»f 
rebellion, thex -w-ell knew that, if liring, 
he woald be the man whose ufiterr ge- 
nius would thwart them in tiwir deagns. 
It is worthy of remark, that the declara- 
tion of such liberal principles, coming 
from the Hberal psrtj — the adTOcaSira <rf 
free labor — £d not tallr -nith the aocoBa- 
tioii BO often made bj the Southera lead- 
o^that the North sought to orerride the 
Setfik. X otwithstandiag the high prestige 
of Gen. Seoii» he was aBsaecessf ul. A man 
80 firm aad detenmned in his purp-oses, 
and patriotic and liberal in his prioeiples. 
vae not likelv to find favor in the exes of 
a party who for a long series of year? had 
used ererr exertion to carry into effect 
a political policy exactly the opposite. 
Aec-ordingly. the Bemocratic ConTention, 
held at Baltimore in 1852. took its stand 
upon the principle that *• Congress has no 
power, under the Constitution, to interfere 
with or control the domestic institutions 
of the sereral States, and that such States 
are the sole and proper judges of erery- 
T.hjng apfiertaining to their own affairs, 
and jiroiubited by the Constitution : that 
aU efforts of the Abolitionists or others. 
made to induce Congress to interfere with 
qnestaons of slavery, or to take incipient 
steps in relati'jn thereto, are calculated to 
lead to the most alarming and dangerous 
consequences, and that all such efforts 
hare an inevitable tendency to diminish 
the happiness of the people, and endanger 
the stability and permanency of the 
Union, and ouj:ht to be disco an tenanced 
by any friend of our political union.'' 
This resolution is nearly word for word 
with the one passed at the Democratic 
Convention in the same city twelve years 
previously. But thepoationof the slavery 
question was quite different in 1852 from 
what it was in 1840. 

The year 1850 brought about what is 
known as the ■' Missouri Compromise.'' 
A measure such as this was well cal- 
culated to call forth keen and acri- 
monious debates. Of course it was to be 
expected that Senators and Representa- 
tives from slavehold'mg States would 
oppose such restrictions as this measure 
intended to enforce. It abridged slavery 
extension, and took from its advocates one 
of the main props Viy which they hoped to 
support their grand* idea of throwing off 
the yoke of allegiance to the United 
States, beooming their own masters, and 



carrying slavery into every nook and 
comer of the territorial possessions of the 
Union. The discussions which took place 
on the " Missouri Compromise" clearly 
showed that, notwithstanding the desire oJ 
the Xorthern States to do everything 
which could reasonably be expected of 
them, and to appease the unbrotherly 
feeling of the Southerners, the concessions 
then made were only the precursor to 
other and more unreasonable commands. 

Allusion has been made to the plat- 
form of the Democratic Convention at 
Baltimore, in 1552. At this time a feeling 
began to pervade a certain class of poli- 
ticians, who, although swayed by Demo- 
cratic tendencies, felt that they could not 
endorse the proclivities of the South to 
the extent that was demanded of them. 
They accordingly formed themselves into 
a free Democratic Convention, met at 
Pittsburg on the 11th of August, and 
adopted a platform. Its declaration of 
principles and measures are remarkable 
for boldness of position and firmness of 
purpose. AVe quote the following in con- 
firmation of this opinion : 

^ That the Constitution of the United 
States, ordained to form a more perfect 
union, to establish justice, and to secure 
the blessings of liberty, expressly denies 
to the general government all power to 
deprive any person of life, liberty, or 
property, without due process of law : 
and. therefore, the government having no 
more power to establish slavery than to 
establish a monarchy, should at once pro- 
ceed to relieve itself from all respon- 
sibility for the existence of slavery, when- 
ever it possesses constitutional power to 
legislate for its extinction. That to the 
persevering and importunate demands of 
th'e slave power for more slave States, 
new slave territories, and 'the national- 
ization of slavery, our distinct and final 
answer is — No more slave States, no slave 
territory, no nationalized slavery, and 
no national legislation for the extra- 
dition of slaves. That slavery is a sin 
against God, and a crime against man, 
which no human enactment nor usuage 
can make right, and that Christianity, 
humanity, and patriotism, alike demand 
its abolition. That the Fugitive Slave 
Act of 1850 is repugnant to the Constitu- 
tion, to the principles of the common law, 
to the spirit of Christianity, and to the 
sentiments of the cirilized world ; we, 
therefore, deny its binding force upon the 



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American people, and demand its im- 
mediate and total repeal.^'"* 

The promulgation of such doctrinee, 
couched in such strong language, and 
advocated and endorsed by the leading 
men of all the free States, must have 
shown the slaveholders of the South that 
their political influence and reign of what 
had been regarded as semi-tyranny, was 
drawing to a close. The Democratic wing 
of the country had become split upon the 
slavery question. And it only required 
time to bring about an apportunity for 
testing at the polls whether the govern- 
ment of the United States was to he car- 
ried on in accordance with the principles 
and provisions of the Constitution, or the 
dictates of a party who had for years 
squelched public opinion on the questicn 
of the immoral and anti-Christian cha- 
racter of slavery. 

The questions involved in the " Missouri 
Compromise"' were brought up by the 
Republican National Convention, which 
met at Philadelphia on the 17th of June, 
185G. This body resolved, "That the 
Constitution confers upon Congress sov- 
ereign power over the territories of the 
United States for their government, and 
that in the exercise of this power, it is 
both the right and the duty of Congress 
to prohibit in the territories these twin rel- 
ics of barbarism— Polygamy and Slavery." 
To counteract the effectual application 
of the principle just quoted, the Demo- 
cratic National Convention assembled at 
Cincinnati, and drafted and adopted that 
celebrated document called the " Cin- 
cinnati Platform," the convention pledg- 
ing itself to "resist all attempts of renew- 
ing in Congress, or out of it. the agitation 
of the slavery question under whatever 
shape or color the attempt may be made." 
The decided opinions of the two conven- 
tions just referred to, brought out a third 
party, the result of which was the assem- 
bling of a Whig National Convention at 
Baltimore, on the 17th of September, 
1856. The object of this organization 
was to elect a President from among the 
politicians of that day, a man who would 
cast aside the peculiar dogmas and doc- 
trines held by the respective geographical 
sections of the country, at the time arrayed 
in political antagonism. Mr. Fillmore was 
their nominee, but Mr. Buchanan being 
put forward 'by the Cincinnati Conven- 
tion, carried the day. Here W€ shall not 

• See Political Text Book for 1S61, page 21. 



enter into any remarks upon the conduct 
and policy of the Buchanan administra- 
tion. It will, however form the subject 
for serious reflection and lengthened ob- 
servation in another part of this work. 

The preceding remarks bring us down 
to the last Presidential campaign. In the 
year 1859, and the early part of 1860, a 
somewhat universal opinion prevailed that 
so strong was'the Abolition sentiment in 
the Northern States, aided, as it had been, 
by the insane attempt of John Brown 
and his misguided followers to seize and 
hold Harper's Ferry, that the time had 
come to meet and avert it. In connec- 
tion, with this feeling, the publication of 
the " Impending Crisis," or " Irrepressible 
Conflict," had no small share in influ- 
encing and inflaming the minds of South- 
ern citizens. Consequently, when the 
time had arrived for holding national 
conventions, for adopting platforms, and 
nominating candidates for President and 
Vice-President, there was strong feeling 
among all parties. At the very outset it 
was evident that the great struggle would 
eventuate in the maintenance or non-exist- 
ence of the Union. The republicans met at 
Chicago on the 16th of May. 1850, and at 
once proclaimed that " the new dogma 
that the Constitution, of its own force, 
carries slavery into all or any of the 
territories of the United States, is a dan- 
gerous political heresy, at variance with 
the explicit provisions of that instrument 
itself, with contemporaneous exposition, 
and with legislative and judicial pre- 
cedent, is revolutionary in its tendencies, 
and subversive of the peace and harmony 
of the country." The result of this con- 
vention was the nomination and subse- 
quent election of iMr. Lincoln as President, 
and Mr. Hamlin as Yice-President. Three 
weeks previous to this the Democratic 
party met at Charleston, S. C. This con- 
vention was composed of very discordant 
materials. How could it be otherwise, 
after the declaration of the Democratic 
Free-Soil Ct)nvention already alluded to 7 
The great bone of contention was the 
slavery issue. Northern Democrats were 
quite aware of the strength of the Repub- 
lican party, and could not, therefore, fall 
in with, much less endorse or approve of 
the bold ideas broached in the speeches of 
Messrs. Avery, Howell Cobb, A. H. 
Stephens, &c., &c. The sentiments of 
these gentlemen clearly indicated that, 
unless they could control the presidential 
election, they would attempt to carry 



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out the idea which many of them had not 
only professed, but positively advocated 
and expounded within the walls of Con- 
gress. After days of fruitless discussion, 
the Southern States perceiving that they 
would be outvoted, began to '-'protest'' 
and withdraw from the convention. Ala- 
bama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Flor- 
ida, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, and Lou- 
siana followed each other in quick suc- 
cession. Eeasons as plenty as blackberries 
in September were put forth by each 
delegation, as it was about to make its 
final bow to the Democratic Convention. 
AYhen they bade " adieu," they understood 
each other so far that they would break 
the back-bone of the Northern Democracy, 
but foolishly omitting to reflect tliat, by 
so doing, they were only playing into the 
hands of their political opponents, the Ke- 
publicans. They ultimately held an ad- 
journed meeting at Richmond, Ya., and, 
after much political manoeuvering, they, 
with some more seceding States, fixed 
their choice of nomination upon Breckin- 
ridge and Lane, for President and Yicc- 
President. Those Avho remained firm at 
Charleston, seeing the aspect of affairs at 
their early sittings, adjourned to meet at 
Paltimore. Here fresh defections took 
place, resulting in a confirmation of the 
nomination of Breckinridge and Lane. 
Meantime, the delegates met at Bal- 
timore, and continued their deliberations 
until Stephen A Douglas and Ilerschel 
Y. Johnson were nominated as the regular 
Democratic candidates for President and 
Yiee-President. 

We must not omit to state that the 
meeting of the Democratic Convention at 
Charleston was somewhat remarkable, 
from the feet that the New-York delega- 
tion, under the peculiar auspices of the 
Hon. Fernando Wood, was denied a seat, 
or any participation in the deliberations 
whicl^ ensued. That the delegates of a 
party, headed by such a man (for without 
endorsing any one of his political objects 
or ideas, we have no hesitation in stating 
our belief, thot he is one of the foremost 
politicians of the age, and that he has few 
ecjuals in the argumentation of any sub- 
ject relating to national or State policy) 
should be excluded, is not only wonderful, 
but serves to show that there was, even 
in the Democratic camp, a strong feeling 
to put an end to the tyi-annical designs of 
the South. 

In the position of affairs just noted, the 
reader will perceive that there were now 



before the public three distinct candidates 
for the office of President, and a like num- 
ber for that of Vice-President. It had 
occun-ed to many deep and reflecting 
minds that some efforts should be made 
to thwart the designs of those who would 
destroy the union of the United States. 
Accordingly, a convention of delegates, 
coming from twenty States, and claiming 
to represent the Constitutional party, met 
at Baltimore on the 29th of May, and 
nominated for President John Bell, of 
Tennessee; and for Vice-President Ed- 
ward Everett, of Massachusetts. The 
principles adopted in the platform of this 
convention included the doctrine that it is 
the part of patriotism, and of duty, to 
recognize no political principle other than 
the Constitution of the country, the Union 
of the State>', and the enforcement of the 
laATS. They further resolved, " That, as 
representatives of the Constitutional }nen 
of the country, in National Convention 
assembled, we hereby pledge ourselves to 
maintain, protect, and defend, separately 
and unitedly, those great principles of 
public liberty and national safety 
against all enemies at home and abroad." 
In principles such as these every man 
could unite. Subsequent events showed 
that had Bell and Everett been placed in 
office the rebellion of 18G1, if not alto- 
gether averted, would have been for a 
series of years postponed. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. 

Having glanced at the political doc- 
trines enumerated in the " platforms" of 
the conventions of all the leading po- 
litical parties, from 1840 to 18GU, we 
proceed to notice the opinions and prin- 
ciples put forth in the letters and speeches 
of the more prominent candidates for the 
offices of President and Vice-President. 
The first to which we would call atten- 
tion are the sentiments of the Hon. 
Daniel Webster. In the United States 
Senate in August, 1848, he thus expressed 
himself, in speaking on the bill to or- 
ganize the territory of Oregon, with a 
clause prohibiting slavery : " The ques- 
tion now is, whether it is competent to 
Congress, in the exercise of a fair and 
just discretion, to say that there have 
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Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas 
— added to the Union out of foreign ac- 
quisitions, and as j^et only one free State ; 
whether, under this state of things, it is 
unreasonable and unjust, in the slightest 
degree, to limit their further extension. 
As to the power of Congress, I have 
nothing to add to what I said the other 
day. I have said that I shall not consent 
to the extension of slavery on this con- 
tinent, nor any increase of slave repre- 
sentation in the other house of Congress."' 
Ten years ])efore this, !Mr. Millard Fill- 
more, in his BulFalo Letter, as it is 
termed, in reply to an inquiry by the 
Anti-Slavery Committee of the county of 
Erie, stated that he was of opinion that 
petitions to Congress, on the subject of 
slavery and the slave trade, ought to be 
received, read, and respectfully con- 
sidered by the representatives of the 
people ; that he was opposed to the an- 
nexation of Texas, under any circum- 
stance, so long as slaves were held there- 
in. He also stated that he was in favor 
of immediate legislation for the abolition 
of slavery in the District of Columbia. 
This same gentleman, nearly twenty years 
later — 185G — foresaw what was about to 
happen to this country ; for wc find him 
speaking in very severe terms of censure 
of a political party presenting candi- 
dates for the Presidency and Vice-Pre- 
sidency, selected from the free States 
alone, with the avowed purpose of elect- 
ing these candidates by sufferance of one 
part of the Union only, to rule over the 
Avhole of the United States. Conduct 
such as this, Mr. Fillmore predicted, 
would bring about cival war, and time 
has led to the realization of his unpleasant 
anticipations. 

But to come down to the period imme- 
diately preceding the secession of the 
Southern States, we find Mr. Lincoln, in 
accepting the nomination for President, 
agreeing to all the principles put forth by 
the Chicago platform. H e furthermore 
pledged himself to respect the rights of 
all the States and territories, and people 
of the nation, to the inviolability of the 
Constitution, and the perpetual union, 
harmony, and prosperity of all. The 
opponents of Mr. Lincoln, particularly 
those residing in the Southern States, 
have accused him of endorsing the work 
of Helper, entitled the "Irrepressible 
Conflict." Let us examine more closely 
his views upon the subject of slavery. 
In the course of his address at the 



Cooper LTnion, on the 27th of February, 
1860, he stated : " Human action can be 
modified to some extent, but human na- 
ture cannot be changed. There is a 
judgment and feeling against slavei-y in 
this nation, which cast at least a million 
and a half of votes."' Again. " An in- 
spection of the Constitution will show that 
the right of property in a slave is not dis- 
tinctly and expressly afiirmed in it. Bear 
in mind, the judges do not pledge their 
judicial opinion that such right is im- 
plicitly affirmed in the Constitution ; but 
they pledge their veracity that it is dis- 
tinctly and expressly afiirmed there, that 
is, not mingled with anything else — 'ex- 
pressly,' that is, in words just meaning 
that, without the aid of any inference, 
and susceptible of no other meaning."' 
There is a good deal of special pleading 
in all this, but toward the close of his 
address he expressed principles and sen- 
timents of the most moderate character. 
" Even though," he said, " the Southern 
people will not so much as listen to us, 
let us calmly consider their demand and 
yield to them, if in our deliberate view 
of our duty we can possibly do so. Judg- 
ing by all they say and do, and by the 
subject and nature of their controversy 
Avith us, let us determine, if we can, wliat 
will satisfy them.'' In all this there is 
not a single word which could lead the 
South to anticipate any evil result from 
Mr. Lincoln's elevation to the White 
House. Nor was there anything offensive 
said towards the States which seceded in 
the Chicago platform, upon which his 
election was carried. It is true that the 
slavery question was condemned, but the 
language adopted was pretty much tlie 
same as was used by the Abolitionists 
twenty years before. Moreover, Mr. Lin- 
coln's inaugural address plainly showed 
that he was determined to administer the 
government without " favor, affection, or 
ill-will" to an}'^ one. How far he has 
performed that obligation of his office, 
every one acquainted with the passing 
events of the day can form a correct 
opinion. For ourselves, we consider he 
acted up to all his promises and pro- 
fessions with great exactitude, and not 
without success. Mr. Hamlin, the Vice- 
President, is of kindred feelings and sen- 
timents on all the great questions of the 
day. Nothing appears in the political 
records which would warrant the South 
to take umbrage at him as President of 
the Senate, and even the premier, Mr. 



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Seward, has given evidence that much 
as he may dislike slavery, he is prepared 
to concede to the South all her just rights, 
and to allow her to manage her domestic 
concerns as interest and taste may dic- 
tate . 

Turning; from the Republican party we 
would next glance at the sentiments and 
expressions of the Democratic candi- 
dates. Mr. Breckenridge, in accepting the 
nomination, writes strongly in favor of 
slave property, and significantly hints 
that •• it has been necessary, more than 
once, to pause and solemnly assert the 
true character of this government." Gen. 
Lane, in his letter of acceptance, adopts 
as his creed — "Non-intervention on the 
subject of slavery, non-intervention by 
Congress, and non-intervention by terri- 
torial legislators-" contending that ''if 
the Constitution establishes the right of 
every citizen to enter the common terri- 
tory with whatever property he legally 
possesses, it necessarily devolves on the 
Federal Goverment to protect the right 
of the citizen whenever or wherever 
assailed or infringed." The General made 
some slight allusions to the beneficial 
efiect arising from the success of his 
party, as we might then expect an era 
of peace and harmony. Failing that, the 
inference is clear that the South had made 
up its mind to revolt from the United 
States. Senator Douglas, who has paid 
the gi'eat debt of nature, and whose loss 
the country at the present time so much 
deplores, in his letter of acceptation of 
nomination for the presidency, laid down 
the doctrine, that the peace of the country 
and the perpetuity of the Union had been 
put in jeopardy by attempts to interfere 
with and control the domestic afi"airs of 
the people in the territories, through the 
agency of the Federal Government. lie 
proclaimed himself an earnest and zeal- 
ous advocate for non-intervention, by 
Congress, with slavery in the territories. 
Notwithstanding his decided opinions, Mr. 
Douglas Avas a Uniou-loving man. The 
Constitutional Union candidates. Bell and 
Everett, were strongly in fitvor of the 
Union. The former ratted — proved him- 
self a political apostate, and sold him- 
self to the cause of disunion and treason. 
Jlr. Everett still clings to the Union, and is 
faithful to his political creed. Among 
the many able writers and speakers in 
defence of the Union, there are none who 
have so argumentatively and eloquently 
demonstrated that the course adopted by 



the South was illegal and immoral in the 
highest degree. 

From the time of holding the National 
Conventions in May and June, 18C0, un- 
til the day of election in the November 
following, the campaign was carried on 
with much spirit on both sides. The Pro- 
slavery party were loth to declare their 
intentions as to treason and rebellion, 
should Mr. Lincoln carry the day. The 
worst passions were exhibited during the 
contest, and every artifice was resorted to 
for the purpose of blackening the public 
character of the Republican candidates in 
the eyes of the citizens at large. It 
should be observed that the Southern 
States for several yCars had been in the 
habit of controling the government, and 
thereby obtaining the lion's share of the 
spoils of oSice. To lose these spoils, and 
to be shorn of their political prestige, 
combined with their fanciful anticipation 
of evil at the hands of a Republican govern- 
ment, almost drove them mad, and long 
before Mr. Lincoln's election was an ac- 
complished fact, the leaders of South Caro- 
lina made up their mind to take leave of 
the United States, and set up a govern- 
ment of their own. No promise nor as- 
severation, be it ever so serious, was of the 
least avail. The prosperity of the North 
was to them a great source of annoyance. 
They coveted a direct European trade, 
and out of a dissolution of the Union 
they believed they would realize this 
grand commercial benefit. 

We have now taken a brief review of 
the men and parties for the last thirty 
years, and from it perceived that the main 
element of agitation has been the slavery 
question ; and that some of our great- 
est men have decidedly opposed slavery 
extension, while others were restless in 
the agitation of measures designed to 
foster and perpetuate the "domestic in- 
stitution" of the South. We have also 
observed that, so long as the South could 
control the North in the Federal Gov- 
ernment of the country, their threats of 
secession were not heard, but instantly the 
Republican party got the upper hand, 
that moment they became restless and 
ungovernable. 



CHAPTER in. 

SOUTHERN TACTICS IN THE LATTER END 

OF 1860. 

Fro.m the tone adopted by the Southern 
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CHRONICLES OF THE REBELLION OF 1861. 



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was evident that the election of a Repub- 
lican president would be merely the Ibre- 
runuer of secession. This was quite clear 
from the language adopted in the protests 
of the delegates of the several Southern 
States, as they withdrew from the conven- 
tion. A few extracts from some of tke 
addresses will prove our position. Mr. 
Glenn, of Mississippi, told the convention : 
" The South leaves you — not like Ilagar, 
driven into the wilderness, friendless and 
alone — but I tell Southern men here, and 
for them, I tell the North, that in less 
than sixty days you will find a united 
South standing side by side with us. Let 
me say to you, that the time may come 
wheu you will need us more than we need 
you. There slumbers in your midst a 
latent spark, not of political sectionalism, 
but of social discord, which may yet re- 
quire the conservative principles of the 
South to save your region of the country 
from anarchy and confusion. We need 
not your protection. The power of the 
Black Republicans is nothing to us. We 
are safe in our own strength and security, 
as long as we maintain our rights." The 
protest from the Texas delegates set forth 
that — " if the principles of the Northern 
Democracy are properly represented by 
the opinion and action of the majority of 
the delegates from that section on this 
floor, we do not hesitate to declare, that 
their principles are not only not ours, but. 
if adhered to and enforced by them, will 
destroy this Union." The Arkansas dele- 
gation was equally emphatic in its protest, 
alleging that the "violation of plighted 
faith on the part of the numerical major- 
ity — this violation of the well-established 
usage and custom of the party — drive us to 
the conclusion, that we cannot longer 
safely trust the fortunes of slaveholding 
States to the chances of the numerical 
majority, in a convention where all the 
Black Republicans of the Union — the im- 
mense populations of Massachusetts, New- 
York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and other 
Northern States — are fully represented 
on the one side, against the small popula- 
tions of the slave States on the other. 
Had these populations adhered strictly 
to the usages and customs of the party, 
longer association might have been prac- 
ticable; but annihilation is staring us in 
the face, and we are admonished of our 
duty to stand upon our rights." The en- 
tire of the Southern discontents drew 
up their protests in tone and sentiment 
pretty similar. All, more or less, threat- 



ened that if their opinion upon Demo- 
cratic doctrines and principles were not 
conceded, the Union was in danger. 

No sooner had it become a positive 
fact that Mr. Lincoln would be elected, 
than South Carolina set about calling a 
State Convention, for the purpose of 
throwing off its allegiance to the United 
States ; and mouths before the time for 
Mr. Lincoln assuming the responsibilities 
of office at the White House, the Seces- 
sion Ordinance was passed, and other 
States invited to follow the example set by 
South Carolina. The convention which 
drew up the Secession Ordinance of South 
Carolina also put forth a declaration of 
causes which induced their political ac- 
tion. Among other statements contained in 
this document we find the following : " We 
assert that fourteen of ihe States have 
deliberately refused for years past to fulfil 
their Constitutional obligations, and we 
refer to their own statutes for the proof" 
The matter to which allusion is here 
made is to the Fugitive Slave Law, and 
charges the several free States with de- 
siring to discharge fugitives from the ser- 
vice of labor claimed, inasmuch as in 
none of them had the State government 
complied with the stipulation in the 
Constitution.* Although the require- 
ments of the Constitution, with regard to 
fugitive slaves, are pretty plain, the 
wording of the fourth article is open to 
disputation and a variety of interpreta- 
tion. For example, the wording of the 
article endows the slave with personality, 
whereas the Slave Code as positively de- 
nies such a quality to slaves held to 
labor. In the foot-notes of Mr. W. Good- 
ell's " National Charters for the Million," 
there is an interesting argument against 
claims of slaveholders, with regard to 
the rendition of their fugive slaves. He 
says : 

" The history, as well as the words of 
this clause, forbids its application to 
fugitive slaves. Towards the close of the 
convention a proposal was made to insert 
a provision for reclaiming fugitive slaves. 
It was scouted by general approbation, 
and abandoned without^ defence. The 
next day this clause, concerning " per- 



* The fourth article of the Constitution runs in these 
worda : " No person held to service or labor in any 
State, under tlie laws thereof, escaping into another, 
sh.Tll, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, 
be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be 
delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such ser 
vice or labor may be due." 



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CHRONICLES OF THE REBELLION OF 1861, 



sons'' from whom service or labor may 
Ije due, was proposed and unanimously 
adopted, without debate. So that the 
indignant refusal of the convention to 
provide for the rendition of fugitive slaves 
is an established historical fact." 

Before going into a nai-rative of the 
subsequent acts of Jefferson Davis and his 
party, up to the evacuation of Fort 
Sumter, we pause to take a brief review 
of the ground already gone over, and 
especially to notice the singular political 
corruptions of the Democratic party dur- 
ing the administration of Mr. Buchanan. 
In the consideration of the facts brought 
out in the report of the Covode investi- 
gation, it Avill be borne in mind that the 
President of the United States, Mr. Bu- 
chanan, submitted to the House of Repre- 
sentatives a protest against the author- 
ity and right to take cognizance of the 
matters which the committee proposed to 
investigate. The fact of this step upon the 
part of Mr. Buchanan raised, in the minds 
of the Republican members of Congress, a 
strong opinion that all was not right, and 
that revelations of a startling and painful 
character would be brought to light. 
Evidently Mr. Buchanan assumed a false 
position in opposing the appointment of 
the Covode committee. Numl^ers of pre- 
cedents existed for its appointment, and 
exercise of all the powers of inquiry C(ui- 
ferred upon it. Commencing with Mr. 
Mason's motion, in 1826, for a committee 
to inquire into the expediency of diminish- 
ing or regulating the patronage of the 
executive of the United States, we come 
to Mr. Calhoun's committee in 1835, for a 
like purpose. Mr. Houston moved for 
and obtained a committee in the Senate, 
in August, 1852, for the investigation of 
political corruption in matters relating to 
Cone;ress, or the conduct of the execu- 
tive. The first part of the Covode inves- 
tigation was the conduct of Mr. Bu- 
chanan and his cabinet, on the Lecompton 
Constitution. The report of the Com- 
mittee thus speaks of that conduct : " The 
patriot will mourn, the historian will 
pause with astonishment over this shame- 
less record. Accustomed as the Amer- 
ican people are_ to the errors and crimes 
of those in power, they will read this ex- 
posure with feelings of unmingled indig- 
nation." The committee then proceed 
to summarize the fiicts revealed ])y the 
testimony. For the information of the 
reader, and in order to more clearly illus- 
trate the tactics of the Southern slave- 



owners, we shall append the committee's 
conviction, as given in the report.* 

This was a pretty extensive bill of in- 
dictment, but any one who peruses the 
evidence of the several witnesses exam- 
ined, will at once admit that the Covode 
committee had strong grounds for laying 
the sweeping charges which they did at 
Mr. Buchanan's door. The testimony of 
Governor "VYalker is very emphatic upon 
these points; for, taken in the most 
favorable light, what does it prove ? 
Simply this : that Mr. Buchanan and his 
cabinet had not only practised " duplicity 
and inconsistency, but treachery to him- 
self as a public officer, after ihey had im- 
plored him to accept a perilous and 
profitless position, and to a principle 
which they were the first to present to his 
favor."f What was the object of such 
reprehensible conduct ? Nothing less 
than a desire to make Kansas a slave 
State, and that too in defiance of the ex- 
pressed will of the people therein. But 
the abuses in some of the public offices 
throughout the country, showing, as they 
do, reprehensible and illegal combinations 
among the federal officers, with a view to 
control the sentiments and preferences of 
the people in their prin)ary political 
movemcn'is, and the corrupt employment 
of the public moneys, &c., in violation of 
law, and government regulation, to pro- 
mote the desigfus and intentions of the 
Pro-slavery partj"^, are not less remark- 
able, and worthy of universal condenma- 
tion. The employment of political par- 
tisans to situations in the public dejiart- 
ments of the country, at extravagant 
salaries, considering that many of them 



* First. The fcru).li.'\tic and unmistakable yledgcs 
of the President, as well before as aftfr his election, 
and the pledges of all his cabinet, to the docti'iue of 
leaving the people of Kansas perfectly free tu form and 
regulate their domestic inetitutions in tht-ir own way. 

Second. The deliberate violation of this pledge, and 
the att^-mpt to convert Kansas into a slave State, by 
means of forgeries, frauds, and force. 

7'hird. The removal, and the attempt to disgrace 
the sworn agents of the adminietration, who refased to 
violate this pledge. 

Fmirth. The ojjen employment of the public money 
in the passage of the Lecompton and Engli.-h bills 
through the Congress of the United States. 

Fifth. The adrais.-ion of the parties engaged in the 
work of electioneering these schemes that they re- 
ceived enormous sums for this purpose, and proof in 
the check? upon which they were paid by an agent of 
the administration. 

Sixth. The offer to purchase newspapers and news- 
paper editor.-, by offers of extravagant sums of money. 

Seventh. And, finally, the proscription of Dem- 
ocrats of high standing, who would not support the 
Lecompton and English bills. 

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were not called upon todiscbar^e scarcely 
any duties, is to be deprecated at any time, 
but when the system is adopted for the 
avowed object of promoting Pro-slavery 
interests, and stifling the expressed will of 
the majority of the people, the act becomes 
criminal in the hishest degree. No won- 
der that the free State party should have 
arisen ia their majesty in November, 1S60, 
and put an end to the reign of that Demo- 
cracy which had then assumed proportions 
of political wickedness so formidable that 
its further endurance was a matter ot com- 
plete impossibility. 

It is only fair to state, that there was 
what is termed a " minority report'" by the 
Covode Ckjmmittee. Mr. Buchanan had his 
interests and views represented thereon. 
The leader of that section of the Commit- 
tee was the Hon. Mr. Winslow. He acted 
more as a retained advocate for Mr. Bu- 
chanan than an independent member of 
the House of Representatives, deputed to 
enquire into the truth or falsehood of the 
charges brought against the Federal Ex- 
ecutive and his subordinates. Desiring, in 
the course of this work, to act upon the 
adage '' audi nUirem partem,'^ it will not be 
out of place to notice the propositions and 
opinions put forth by the " minority." 
The successful nisi pnus pleader never 
fails, when addressing a jury, to endeavor 
to throw "metaphysical dust" in their 
mental vision, and, with an unlimited li- 
cense, stigmatise the cause of his opposing 
counsel. If facts and iigures are against 
him, if his legal points are untenable, and 
his case is, what lawyers term desperate, 
his last resort is to indulge in forensic de- 
clamation in denouncing the prosecution 
or the defense, as the case may be, ignoble, 
unjust, and unmercitul. This would seem 
to be the part performed by Mr. Winslow. 
In the " minority report" he began by de- 
nouncing the character of the investiga- 
tion, as it covered so much ground, and 
opened such an illimitable field for the gra- 
tification of personal spleen and malignity. 
What motives more undignified and un- 
worthy could be imputed ? Afterwards 
most of the witnesses who gave testimony 
against the administration of Mr. Buchan- 



an were termed a " pack of slanderous 
jackals of society, who are ever barking at 
the heels of respectability, ank snuffing for 
their favorite repast — the offals of slander- 
ed repuiations. The coward sheltered un- 
der an anonymous signature could vent all 
his spleen and malignity without risk of 
discovery, and the course of the investiga- 
tion had stimulated informers, and encour- 
aged tale-bearers." Such was the spirit 
evinced by Mr. Winslow in the introduc- 
tion of his " minority report." Thus in- 
fluenced, his first object was to impeach the 
credibilty of the witnesses. He avered that 
most of the charges were founded upon 
*' anonymous communications, others upon 
information from per.sons destitute of char- 
acter and without position, displaced office- 
holders, disappointed office-seekers, venal 
placemen, adventurers — mercenary Swiss, 
whose politics were bounded by no loftier 
motive than interest." The charge re- 
specting the Lecompton Con.stituiion is 
noticed thus : "If such a charge were true, 
it might effect the character of the Presi- 
dent lor candor and fair dealing, but the 
offence" (forcing upon an unwilling pec 
pie a Constitution confining their suffrages 
to the naked question of slavery), " if im- 
proper in morals, is not impenetrable in 
law." Whether the expounders of Ameri- 
can Constitutional jurisprudence will agree 
with this opinion, shall not be here de- 
cided. Nevertheless, it has the appear- 
ance of novelty, and, if correct, would open 
the door effectually for the perpetration of 
those acts of " forgeries, fraud, and force," 
so emphatically set forth in the " majority 
report." Mr. Winslow, as any other lawyer 
would do, exercised his legal ingenuity in 
making "the worse appear the better 
cause " His dexterous manoeuvre to carry 
on the investigation during the recess, and 
thereby postpone the promulgation of the 
Committee's report until after the Presi- 
dential election, was a great political move, 
and one which, had it been successful, 
would have wielded no small influence at 
the election polls in November, 1860. Mr. 
Winslow failed in his designs. The report 
was made public just as the Presidential 
campaign was in full bljist, and it express- 



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CHRONICLES OF THE REBELLION OF 1861. 



ed most unsparingly what, for sake of dis- 
tinction, merits the appellation of — the last 
sins of the Democracy. 

The conclusion of Mr. Winslow's report 
is not less remarkable for the admissions 
which it makes than for the scurrility 
which characterized its introduction. He 
admitted that there were frauds in Penn- 
sylvania, but they are excusable on the 
ground that they were committed by 
"both of the great parties." Such an 
apology for maladministration has rarely, 
if ever, been put forth ; and the people to 
whom it would be addressed — if acceptable 
— would show that they were merely polit- 
ical serfs, unfit for the enjoyment of consti- 
tutional liberty, and incompetent to exer- 
cise all those rights and privileges which 
appertain to the independent and patriotic 
citizens of every free and enlightened 
country. " Irregularities " are acknow- 
ledged to have existed in the Navy Yard at 
Philadelphia, as well as " responsible ir- 
regularities" in some of the post offices and 
custom houses ; but all this took place 
without the concurrence or sanction of the 
President, or any of his cabinet. Mr. Wins- 
low does not attempt to prove that, there- 
lore, as much importance must be attached 
to his confident assertions as would be to 
the feed advocate who contends that his 
client is not guilty of murder, although the 
proof is beyond dispute, and the murderer 
himself has actually told him so before be- 
ing given in charge to the jury Admitting 
the position put forward by Mr. Winslow — 
namely, that the object of the Covode inves- 
tigation was to injure the public character 
of Mr. Buchanan in the estimation of his 
fellow-citizens, it does not follow that that 
can in any degree palliate for the political 
corruption and other governmental misde- 
meanors, of which the majority of the Co- 
vode Committee contend they had ample 
proof 

To sum up, in a few words, the impres- 
sion created upon our mind after a perusal 
of the " Covode Investigation," we must 
confess is that Mr. Buchanan's administra- 
tion was carried out, from first to last, for 
the purpose of extending slavery. The 
South issued its dictates as a master, sup- 



ported by national authority, and the North 
quietly a.'sented to its imperious dictates. 
New demands were made every day. In 
quick succession did exaction follow exac- 
tion, prostrating, one afier the other, all 
safeguards and securities— the Wilmot Pro- 
viso, the Missouri Compromise, the right 
of majorities in the territories, and the 
actual sovereignty of the States cast aside 
by the Dred Scott decision. By means such 
as these, the slaveholders of the South suc- 
ceeded in drawing the United States into 
those violent and dishonest political prac- 
tices which marked the administration of 
Mr. Buchanan, and which have been so 
thoroughly exposed by the " Covode Inves- 
tigation." We might write a whole volume 
upon these themes, and show therefrom 
that the triumph of the Republican party 
was owing in no small degree to the cor- 
rupt conduct of the Buchanan ministry, 
and the tyrannical demeanor of the slave- 
holding States. That triumph effected a 
preconceived design — secession — and with 
it the inauguration of civil war. 



CHAPTER IV. 

SECESSION PR0GKES8. 

To return to the slaveholders of the 
South. The convention at Charleston 
passed their famous ordinance of Secession 
on the 20th day of December, ISGO. This 
first act in the great drama of rebellion 
was taken up with much enthusiasm, not 
only in every quarter of South Carolina, 
but throughout the adjoining Slave States. 
At Mobile, there was a military parade ; 
one hundred guns were fired ; the bells 
rang merrily ; and the people by hundreds 
perambulated the streets, expressing un- 
bounded satisfaction at the idea of separa- 
tion from the United States. The enthusi- 
asm was even greater in New Orleans. 
There, too, one hundred guns were fired, 
and the pelican flag unfurled. Impromptu 
secesKion speeches were delivered by lead- 
ing citizens, and the " Marseillaise Hymn'» 
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played. Tennessee also contributed her 
quota to the general rejoicing. lu a word, 
all the States which subsequently formed 
themselves into the " Southern Confedera- 
cy" thus early gave manifestations of their 
approval of the step taken by South Caro- 
lina. In the midst of all this agitation and 
excitement in every region of the Slave 
Dominion, the Members of Congress for 
South Carolina took leave of the Senate 
and House of Representatives, in short but 
emphatic speeches, indicating firmness of 
purpose and a determination on the part of 
South Carolina to defend to the very last 
extremity the course which had been adopt- 
ed. Meanwhile, the secession mania had 
spread with rapidity throughout the South, 
as maybe perceived by a glance at the fol- 
lowing tabular statement, showing : 

THE PERIODS OF SECESSION OF THE 
OONFEDEBATE STATES. 
The disloyal States seceded in the following 
order : 



State. 



Date of 
Secession. 



Vote of 
Convention. 



Soath Carolina.. .. December 20, 18G0.... 

Missiijsippi January 9, 1861 84 to 15 

Alabama January 11, 1861 61 to 39 

FloriJa.. January 11, 1861 62 to 7 

Georgia January 19, 1861 208 to 89 

Louisiana January 26, 1861 113 to 17 

Texas February 1, 1861 166 to 7 

Virginia April 17, 1861 

Arkansas May 6, 1861 69 to 1 



DATE OF RATIFICATION" OF THE CON- 
FEDERATE STATES CONSTITUIION. 

These States have ratified the Constitution of 
the Confederate States by the following pole: 

State ^"'^^ "^ ^"'^ "-^ 

Ratification. Convention. 

Alabama March 13, 1861.. 87 to 5 

O-eor^ia March 16, 1861.. 96 to 5 

Louisiana March 21, 1861.. 101 to 7 

Texas. March 25, 1861 . . 68 to 2 

Mississippi March 30, 1861 . . 78 to 7 

South Carolina Aprils, 1861.... 149 to 29 

Florida April 23, 1861... Unanimously. 

Arkansas, May 6, 1861 Unanimously. 

Among the first objects which claimed 
the earnest solicitude of the secession lead- 
ers in Sonth Carolina were the enlistment 
of all the slaveholding States in their be- 
half, and non-reinforcement of the forts in 
Charleston harbor. Their object in obtain- 
ing possession of these strongholds was to 
bid defiance to the Inderal authorities at 



"Washington, and thus not merely evade 
the payment of national duties on import- 
ed goods and manufactures, but also to se- 
cure the acknowledgment and sympathy 
of the great European powers. Their ar- 
guments and reasons upon these points 
were expressed in the following terms by 
the leading organ of secession in Charles- 
ton — the Mercury : " The reinforcement of 
the forts at this time, and under present 
circumstances, means coercion — war 1 
When the forts are demanded, and refused 
to be delivered up to those in whom is vest- 
ed the title of eminent domain, and for 
whose protection and defense alone they 
were ceded and built up ; and when, the 
Federal Government showing a hostile 
purpose, it shall become proper for us to 
obtain possession, then it will be right lor 
the world and Black Republicanism to ex- 
pect that the State, by her authorities, will 
move in the premises. The people will 
obey the call for war, and take the forts." 
This expression of opinion and intention 
was followed by the proclamation of Gov. 
Pickens (two days after, Dec. 24), declaring 
South Carolina a separate, sovereign, free 
and independent State, with the right to 
levy war, conclude peace, negotiate treat- 
ies, leagues, covenants, and to do all acts 
whatever that rightly appertain to a free 
and independent State. Prior to this, a 
company of eighty men from Savannah, 
Ga., arrived at Charleston, and tendered 
their services to Gov. Pickens, under the 
name of " Minute Men," or " Sons of the 
South." No sooner had Governor Pickens' 
proclamation became known, than Major 
Anderson, who had charge of the Charles- 
ton forts, set about improving his position 
and strengthening his defences against the 
bold and traitorous designs just quoted from 
the Charleston Mercury. Up to this time 
Major Anderson was quite a favorite with 
the Charlestonians, and, if anything, was 
supposed to fa^or Southern proclivities. 
Subsequent events showed that he was an 
officer of another stamp — that, with devot- 
ed loyalty to the Union, he added military 
strategy and tact of no mean order, and 
that all his best energies, as commander of 
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preserve and maintain untarnished the 
dignity and honor of the American flag. 
Knowing that his then position — Fort 
Moultrie — was not by any means desirable 
or secure, in the event of any outbreak upon 
the part of the Secessionists, he made up 
his mind to remove to Fort Sumter — a 
place of much greater strength, and in a 
position better calculated to command the 
harbor and city of Charleston. No time 
wa? lost in carrying out the design, with a 
dispatch and a secrecy which all naval and 
military authorities pronounce admirable 
in the extreme. Fort Moultrie was evacu- 
ated on the night of December 26, 1860. 
Previous to the evacuation, the guns were 
spiked and the carriages destroyed by fire. 
The evacuation commenced a little after 
sun-down. The men were ordered to hold 
themselves in readiness, with knapsacks 
packed, at a moment's notice. They were 
reviewed on parade, and afterwards order- 
ed to two schooners lying in the vicinity, 
taking with them all the necessary stores 
and requisites in their evacuation. Sever- 
al trips were made during the night, and a 
great part of the provisions and camp fur- 
niture were transported under cover of 
night. The lightness of the moon, howev- 
er, afforded but slight concealment to their 
movements ; and in one of their trips, 
Lieut. Davis in command, a schooner full 
of soldiers and baggage passed directly un- 
der the guard-boat "Nina." Singular as 
it may appear, the officer of this portion of 
South Carolina executive authority did net 
take any notice of the aflair. The evacua- 
tion was complete in every respect, and 
when fully known, took the confiding citi- 
zens of Charleston by complete surprise, 
and much indignation. This opinion is 
demonstrated beyond any cavil or doubt 
from the statements which appeared in the 
Charleston papers on the morning follow- 
ing the evacuation — December 2/ One of 
them writes : " The heavy guns upon the 
ramparts of the fort were thrown down 
from their carriages and spiked ; every 
ouoce of powder and every cartridge had 
been removed from the magazines ; and, 
in fact, everything like small arms, cloth- 
ing, provisions, accoutrements, and other 



munitions of war had been removed off and 
deposited — nothing but heavy ball and use- 
less cannon remained." Another paper, 
in a spirit of desperate frenzy, told its read- 
ers : " Fort Moultrie, in a mutilated state, 
with useless guns, and flames rising in dif- 
ferent portions of it, will stand to show the 
cowardly conduct of the ofHcers who had 
charge of it, and who, in times of peace, 
basely deserted their post, and attempted 
to destroy a fortification which is surround- 
ed with 80 many historical reminiscences, 
that the arm of the base scoundrel who 
would have ruined it should have dropped 
from its socket." Thiswise and precau- 
tionary act of Major Anderson was per- 
formed without the knowledge or concur- 
rence of the executive authorities at Wash- 
ington ; and when the fact became known 
to the Charlestonians, their anger was with- 
out bounds, and their threats of revenge 
more like the ravings of irritated maniacs 
than the expressions of a dissatisfied people. 
It was not in threats, however, that they 
showed that they would no longer be sub- 
ject to the United States. The authorities 
created under the ordinance of secession 
appointed three commissioners to proceed 
to Washington, for the purpose ot treating 
with the Government of the United States 
for the delivery of the forts, magazines, 
light-houses, and other real estate, with 
their appurtenances, in the limits of South 
Carolina, and also for an apportionment of 
the public debt, and for a division of all 
other property held by the Government of 
the United States as agent of the Confeder- 
ated States, of which South Carolina was 
recently a member, and generally to ne- 
gotiate as to all other measures and ar- 
rangements proper to be made and adopt- 
ed in the existing relation of the parties, 
and for the continuance of peace and amity 
between this commonwealth and the gov- 
ernment at Washington. In laying before 
Mr. Buchanan, the then President of the 
United States, this programme of their au- 
thority and power, the dismantling of Fort 
Moultrie and the occupancy of Fort Sumter 
was alluded to and commented upon, and 
an urgent appeal made to him to withdraw 
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mucli as under the circumstances of that 
hour, they were nothing less than a stand- 
ing menace. The arrival of the Charles- 
ton Commissioners, and their introductory 
correspondence with the President of the 
United States, was not less annoying and 
perplexing to His Excellency than the fact 
that his Secretary of War was in league 
with the Southern Commissioner?, and that 
on the very day they first addressed Mr. 
Buchanan upon the purport of their mis- 
sion to the National Capital, he, upon the 
plea of the violation of solemn pledges re- 
garding the troops at Charleston, and the 
occupation of the forts at that city, tender- 
ed his resignation, as he could no longer 
hold his position as Secretary of War with 
honor, subjected as he was to a violation of 
solemn pledges and plighted faith. Mr. 
Buchanan at once accepted the resignation, 
and was thus relieved of a colleague in the 
administration of the United States gov- 
ernment who had at once proved himself 
to be a traitor to his country and a tool in 
the hands of its enemies. With the Com- 
mis^^ioners themselves Mr. Buchanan had 
a much more difficult game to play. It 
has been already shown that the main 
features of his Presidency were pro-slavery. 
Hence arose the difficulty of holding inter- 
course with the representatives of what he, 
as Chief Magistrate of the United States, 
was bound to consider a treasonable move- 
ment. Two of his Secretaries of State, 
Howell Cobb, of Georgia, and John B. 
Floyd, of Virginia — the former being chief 
of the Ti'easury Department, and the latter 
the head of the Army Bureau — had forsaken 
him. They knew his sentiments, and had 
no doubt extorted from him promises to 
aid the Southern cause, which, if made 
known, would in after years damage his 
character as a statesman, and deeply tar- 
nish his reputation for political morality, 
honor and honesty. Such was the circum- 
stances by which he was surrounded when 
compelled to enter into a correspondence 
with the Commissioners from South Caro- 
Carolina. It was clear that he could not 
recognize the Commissioners in an official 
capacity. He therefore told them so. Not 
desiring to be curt or to appear offensive, 



Mr. Buchanan then entered into an argu- 
ment, setting forth opinions expressed in 
his last inaugural, respecting the forts at 
Charleston, and said that when he learned 
that Major Anderson had left Fort Moul- 
trie and proceeded to Fort Sumter, his first 
promptings were to command him to return 
to his former position, and there to await 
the contingencies presented in his instruc- 
tions*. The events which subsequently 
took place at Charleston — seizure by force 
of two of the Federal forts, and the covering 
of them with the palmetto flas, instead of 
that of the United States ; the seizure of 
the national custom-house and post-office, 
and the resignation on the same day of 
every officer of the Customs — Collector, 
iTaval Officer, Surveyor, and Appraiser — 
had 80 altered the position of affairs, that 
Mr. Buchanan was compelled to tell the 

* The following is a copyof thf "Verbal In- 
slrnctions to Major Anderson, First Artillery, 
commanding Fort Moultrie, S. C." 

" You are aware of the great anxiety of the 
Secretary of War th.at a, collision of the troops 
with tlie people of this State shall be avoided, 
and of hJK studied determination to pursue a 
course with reference to the military force and 
forts of this harbor, which sh,all guard against 
such a collision. He has, therefore, carefully 
abstained from incre.asing the force at this 
point, or taking any measures which might 
add to the present excited state of the public 
mind, or which w^ould throw any dotibt on the 
confidence he feels that South Carolina will 
not attempt by violence to obtain possession of 
the public worljs, or interfere with their occu- 
pancy. 

" But as the counsel and acts of rash and im- 
pulsive persons may possibly disappoint these 
expectations of the Government, he deems it 
proper that you should be prepared with in- 
structions to meet so unhappy a contingency. 
He has, therefore, directed me, verbally, to 
give you such instructions. 

" Y<iu are carefully to avoid every act w^hich 
would needlessly tend to provoke aggression, 
and for that reason you are not, without ne- 
cessity, to take up any position which could be 
construed into the assumption of a hostile at- 
titude ; but you are to hold posse>'iiio')i of the 
forts in the harbor, and if attacked, you are to 
defend yourself to the lan,t extremity. I'he tmall- 
ness of your force wili not permit you, per- 
haps, to occupy more than one of the three 
forts, but-an attack on, or attempt to take pos- 
session of either of them, will be regarded as 
an act m hostility, and you may then put 
your command into either of them which yon 
may deem most proper to increase its power 
of resistance. You are aluo authorized to take 
similar steps whenever you hane tangible evidence 
of a design to proceed to a hostile act. 
" D. P. Hitler, 
"Assistant Adjutant-General." 

FoFT Moultrie, S. U., Dec. 11, 1860. 

"This is in conformity to my instructions to 
Major Buell. Joh.n B. Fioyd, 



" Secretary of War.' 



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Commissioners that it was his duty "to de- 
fend Fort Sumter as a portion of the public 
property of the United States against hos- 
tile attacks, from whatever quarter they 
may come, by such means as he possessed, 
nor did he perceive how such a defence 
could be construed into a menace against 
the city of Charleston." As so much stress 
was laid upon tlie act of Major Anderson ui 
dismantling Fort Moultrie and removing to 
Fort Sumter, our readers will pardon us for 
digressing for a few moments so as to lay 
before them a brief memoir of this talented 
soldier and truly patriotic citizen. 

Returning to President Buchanan and 
the South Carolina Commissioners, we find 
the latter replying to the first of the form- 
er, under date of January 1, 1861. In this 
document they set out with staling '■ that 
South Carolina having, in the exercise of 
that great right of-sell government, which 
underlies great political organizations, de- 
clared herself sovereign and independent, 
we, as her representatives, felt no special 
solicitude as to the character in which you 
might recognise us." After charging Mr. 
Buchanan with misquoting and miscon- 
ceiving the tenor of their first communica- 
tion, they proceed to meet ihe chief points 
of his argument In doing so, they do not 
fail to tarnish Mr. Buchanan's reputation 
as a diplomatist and a statesman, and ar- 
gue, with much apparent success, against 
the inconsistency and shuffling proclivities 
so strongly manifested by him in his reply 
regarding the movements of Major An- 
derson. Indeed, so emphatic were the 
opinions expressed by the Commissioners, 
that Mr. Buchanan endorsed it with the 
following words: " This paper, just pre- 
sented to the President, is of such a char- 
acter that he declines to receive it." A 
considerable portion of the community felt 
that Mr. Buchananan erred in the first in- 
stance by holding awy intercourse with the 
Charleston Commissioners. He was, no 
doubt, anxious to postpone the threatened 
rupture as long as possible, and thereby 
hand to his sucees.sor, Mr. Lincoln, as a 
lecxacy, the settlement of the great contest 
which the Southern Commissioners alleg- 
ed was the result of his own course of ac- 



tion. That he attained his object cannot 
be denied, and that promptitude and vigor 
at the outset with the secestionists would 
have nipped their designs in the bud is 
equally incontrovertible. 

The Charleston Commissioners, finding 
they could do nothing with Mr. Buchanan, 
returned home. Just about this time, 
General Wool came out with some letters, 
which, at one time, led to the hope tha) he 
would be employed in restoring peace, if 
not by the mildercour.se of persuasion and 
reason, at the point of the sword. On the 
31st of December, 1860, writing to a friend 
in Washington, he remarks: ''Although 
she"— South Carolina — " may have seized 
the revenue cutter, raised her palmetto 
flag over the United States' arsenal, the 
Custom House, Post Oflice, Castle Pinck- 
ney, and Fort Moultrie, she is not out of 
the United States, nor beyond the pale of 
the Union. Before she can get out of their 
jurisdiction or control, a reconstruction of 
the Constitution must be had, or civil war en- 
sue.^'' Again, in a letter written about 
three weeks previous to this. Gen. Wool 
wrote to General Cass, urging upon the 
Cabinet at Washingfon to adopt such 
means to save the forts at Charleston from 
falling into the hands of the secessionists. 
He patriotically tells General Cass that, if 
he could aid the President to preserve the 
Union, he hoped he would command his 
services, and adds: " It will never do for 
him or you to leave Washington without 
every star in this Union in its place." 
General Wool's opinion was disregard- 
ed, the Charleston forts were not retained, 
and one by one did the slaveholding States 
repudiate the authority and control of the 
Federal Grovernment ; and by the time 
Mr. Buchanan took leave of the White 
House, no less than six of the Southern 
States had marched out of the Union. 

South Carolina having taken the initia- 
tive in the secession movement, her con- 
vention passed an ordinance to define and 
punish treason. It provides that, in addi- 
tion to that already declared treason by 
the General Assembly, treason shall con- 
sist only levying war against the State, 
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aid and comfort. The penalty is death, 
without the benefit of clergy. In this 
position of affairs *did the year 1861 open 
upon what had previously been the great- 
est and must glorious of all democratic 
forms of government. Mr. Buchanan had 
now only two months more to complete 
his Presicleiitial term. One would, there- 
fore, have imagined that he would, in the 
course of even that short period, have 
taken some steps to retrieve the errors of 
the past, and preserve the public property 
of the United States from being plundered 
by what had now as-sumed all the charac- 
teristics of a band of rebels. Immediately 
after Major Anderson had removed to Fort 
Sumter, his communications with the City 
of Charleston were cut ofl", and shortly af- 
ter the fort was closely beseiged, and ex- 
tensive preparations were set on foot to 
capture it at all hazards. Justly, indeed, 
does Count Agenor De Saspin in his able 
book, " The Uprising of a Great Peojde," 
remark : 

*' The Carolinians thought that they 
might be excused for being a little less 
prudent than the first magistrate of the 
United States. Since, moreover, they saw 
their pretensions sanctioned by him, why 
not attack the Confederation while it had 
a Chief who was determined to make as 
little defence as possible ? The weakness 
of Mr. Buchanan justified the confidence 
of Carolina. He refrained to place in the 
Federal fortresses troops destined to pro- 
tect them against an expected assault, 
when a brave man, Major Andersoon, took 
measures to defend the post that had been 
confided him. This unexpected resistance 
by which the programme was deranged, 
appeared as ill-timed to Mr. Buchanan as 
insolent to the people of Charleston, and 
the dispatch addressed to their Commis- 
sioners exculpates him from the crime of 
having sent the reinforcements, and makes 
excuses in pitiful terms for the conduct of 
Major Anderson, whom they ought to hear 
before condemning. In fact, Anderson 
acted on his own responsibility, and incur- 
red the blame of the Minister of War, who 
advised in full council the surrender of the 
forts. The American government is as 



timid as the seceded States are resolute. 
Our generation, which has witnessed sad 
spectacles, has never yet, perhaps, contem- 
plated any more humiliating ministers — 
one of whom, hardly out of the Cabinet, 
has gone to preside over the secession con- 
vention at Montgomery, and another of 
whom has taken care to pave the way in 
advance for the revolt of the South, and 
to secure for it the resources of money, 
arms, and munitions, which it was about 
to need ; ministers who vote openly for the 
insurgents, whose financial intrigues have 
been proved by investigation, and whose 
electoral manoeuvres, duplicated by em- 
bezzlement of public money, have ended 
in a sort of political treason, disavowed 
only by General Cass ; a Cabinet to con- 
tinue its former cour.se by killing with its 
veto the bill adopted by the legislature of 
Nebraska to prohibit slavery in its terri- 
tory — a government falling apart by piece- 
meal for lear of compromising itself by re- 
sisting some part of the South ; do you 
know anything more shameful ? Mr. Bu- 
chanan will end as he began : for lour 
years he has been struggling to obtain an 
extension ot slavery ; for a month he has 
been favoring the plans of separation by 
opposing his force of inertia to the grow- 
ing indignation of the North." 

It was somewhere about this juncture 
that reports were circulated in Washing- 
ton that armed bands were organizing to 
take possession of the Capital before the 
votes for President and Vice-President 
were counted. The then executive was 
somewhat alarmed at the rumors, and 
General Scott was authorized to make ar- 
rangements to put down the mob, should 
such an expedient to stifle the solemnly 
recorded will of the people be resorted to. 
While the Northern States were disagree- 
ably influenced by such tales as the fore- 
going, those of the South were busily ar- 
ranging their departure from the Union. 
The Alabama State Convention organized 
at Montgomery. Mississippi sent her del- 
egates to Jacksonville, both of which 
passed ordinances of secession without de- 
lay. After these followed Georgia, and 
then Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. The 



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OP 1861. 



at itude of the secessionists became more 
bold and defiant every day. Their strength 
was augmented, and the serious character 
of the crisis more and more apparent To 
expel the North from the South, both in a 
commercial and governmental point of 
view, was the watchword. And it must 
be admitted that the sentiment was taken 
up with enthusiastic determination and 
willingness by all classes, both young and 
old, rich and poor, which clearly demon- 
strated that, come what may, the contest 
could not, would not be settled without a 
fight. To demonstrate the designs of the 
secessionists, it is only requisite to point 
to the fact that armed bodies of Florida 
and Alabama troops appeared before the 
gates of the Navy Yard of Pensacola, de- 
manded possession, and were unresisted 
They also captured Fort Barrancas. This 
move, it was alleged, took place in conse- 
quence of the United States government 
garrisoning Fort Pickens, which had pre- 
viously been occupied. Property to the 
amount of one hundred and fifty-six thou- 
sand dollars was captured at the Pensaco- 
la Navy Yard. In addition to these, the 
mint at New Orleans was seized by the se 
cessionists, and all the public property be- 
longing to the United States was taken 
possession of, and whatever was useful or 
valuable appropriated to Southern pur- 
poses. Notwithstanding all this, the then 
Administration exhibited an amount of in- 
difference to what was going on, which, to 
any other country in the universe, would 
have been totally inexplicable. The first 
symptoms of the intentions of the execu- 
tive of South Carolina were manifested on 
the 9th of January, 1861 The " Star of 
the West," arrived off Charleston Harbor 
on that morning, having on board two 
hundred and fifty artillerymen and ma- 
rines, stores, ammunition, &c. She was 
signalled by a steamer on the watch at 
the mouth of the harbor. After the usual 
preliminary warning by the firing of a 
shot across the bows, the "Star of the 
West" proceeded on towards Fort Sumter 
bearing aloft the stars and stripes. This 
was the signal to fire into her from Morris 
Island Battery and from Fort Moultrie 



The captain deemed prudence the better 
part of valor, and again put to sea. Mean- 
while, Major Anderson made the appear- 
ance of preparing for action by runnin-r 
out guns at Fort Sumter None were" 
however, fired ; and the first effort torein- 
^rce the troops under the command of 
Majot Anderson proved abortive. This 
aflairwasthe preliminary act of all the 
difficulties which afterwards occurred - 
The commander of Fort Sumter opened a 
sort of semi-diplomatic correspondence 
with Gov. Pickens, of Charleston. He sent 
a l^ag of truce with a note couched in the 
following terms: " Two of your batteries 
fired this morning on an unarmed vessel 
bearing the flag of my government. As I 
have not been notified that war has been 
declared by South Carolina against the 
United States, I cannot but think this a 
hostile act committed without your sane 
nod and authority. Under this hope I re- 
frain from opening a fire on your batteries. 
1 have therefore respectfully to ask wheth- 
er the above-mentioned act-one which I 
believe without a parallel in the history of 
our country, or any other civilized govern- 
ment-was committed in obedience to your 
instructions ; and notify you, if it is not 
disclaimed, that I regard it as an act of 
war, and I shall not, after reasonable time 
for the return of my messenger, permit 
any vessel to pass within range of the guns 
ot my fort. In order to save, as far as it is 
in my power, the shedding of blood, 1 be^r 
you will take due notification of my decis"- 
lon, for t .e good of all concerned." Gov. 
Pickens was not to be intimidated by the 
threats of the hero of Fort Sumter. Ac 
cordingly, after stating the position of 
South Carolina towards the governmental 
Washington, he observes that any attempt 
to send United States troops into Charles- 
ton Harbor would be regarded as an act of 
hostility-furthermore, that any attempt 
to reinforce Fort Sumter, or retake and re- 
sume possession of the forts within the 
waters of South Carolina, which Major An- 
derson abandoned, after spiking the can- 
non and doing other damage, could not 
but be regarded by the authorities of the 
Slate as indicative of any other purpose 



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than the coercion of the State by tke armed 
force of the government. After stating 
that special agents hatl been off the bar to 
warn approaching vessels, armed and un- 
armed, having troops on board to reinforce 
Fort Sumter, not to enter the harbor, Gov. 
Pickens adds : " Special orders have been 
given the commanders at the forts not to 
fire on such vessels until a shot across the 
bows should vs-arn them of the prohibition 
of the State. Under these circumstances, 
the Star of the West, it is understood, this 
morning attempted to enter the harbor 
\pith troops, after having been notified she 
could not enter, and consequently she was 
fired into. This act is perfectly justified 
by me." With regard to Major Ander- 
son's threat, Gov. Pickens was both lacon- 
ic and pithy. He said : "In regard to 
your threat about vessels in the harbor, it 
is only necessary for me to say, you must 
be the judge of your responsibility. Your 
position in the harbor has been tolerated by 
the authorities of the State ; and while the 
act of which you complain is in perfect 
consistency with the rights and duties of 
the State, it is not perceived how far the 
conduct you propose to adopt can find a 
parallel in the history of any country, or 
be reconciled with any purpose than that of 
your government imposing on the State the 
condition of a conquered province.'' The 
tenor of this reply induced Major Anderson 
to alter his proposed plan of operations, for 
he immediately acquainted Gov. Pickens 
that he had deemed it proper to refer the 
whole matter to his government, and asked 
for facilities for the departure and return 
of his messenger, Lieut. Talbot, to and 
from Washington. Thus, for a time, the 
affair was allowed to rest. Secessionism, 
however, was gaining ground. On the 
11th of January, the Alabama Convention 
met at Montgomery, and passed their se- 
cession ordinance. No sooner was the news 
known at Mobile than the people became 
frantic with joy, and both day and night 
were spent in rejoicings of the most boist- 
erous character. In short, to adopt the 
words of a Mobile paper of January 12 : 
" The occasion seemed several Fourth of 
Julys, and a number of New Year's eves, va- 



rious Chris tmases, and a sprinkling of holi- 
days all rolled into one event. While we 
■write, at a late hour, some enthusiastic ora- 
tor is harranguing a shouting multitude 
from the steps of the custom-house, and all 
the juvenile fireworks of China and the 
other Indies seem to be on a grand burst 
of combined explosion, startling the ear 
with their mimic artillery of gratulation." 
The rejoicings were no doubt stimulated by 
the fact that Florida had also passed an or- 
dinance of Secession. 

In the state of affairs just described, 
Northern statesmen began to feel uneasy 
about the Union. The Legislature of the 
State of New York, after noting the conduct 
of South Carolina, already described, and 
the seizure of the forts and property of the 
United States Government in Georgia, Al- 
abama, Louisiana, etc., resolved : " That 
the Legislature of New York is profound- 
ly impressed with the value of the Union, 
and determined to preserve it unimpaired ; 
that it greets with joy the recent firm, dig- 
nified and patriotic message of the Presi- 
dent of the United States, and that we ten- 
der him, through the chief magistrate of 
our own State, whatever aid in men and 
money may be required to enable him to 
enforce the laws and uphold the authority 
of the Federal Government, and that in 
the defence of the Union, which has con- 
fered prosperity and happiness upon the 
American people, renewing the pledge 
given and redeemed by our fathers, we are 
ready to devote our fortunes and our sacred 
honor." Copies of this resolution were for- 
warded " to the President of the Nation, 
and to the Governors of all the States of 
the Union." That it did not allay seces- 
sion feeling does not require proof. In fact, 
such was the determination of the South to 
be their own rulers, that it was impossible 
to stem the tide of revolution which had 
set in. 

Mr. Jefferson Davis played a most con- 
spicuous part in the Secession game ; and 
as his State had cast off allegiance to the 
Union, he appeared in the United States 
Senate, on the 21st of January, to take his 
leave of that body and justify the course of 
action which Mississippi had determined 



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to pursue. Among other things, he said : 
" It is known to Senators who have served 
here that I have for many years advocated, 
as an essential attribute ot State sover- 
eignty, the right of a State to secede from 
the Union. If, therefore, I had not believed 
there was justifiable cause— if I had thought 
the State was acting without sufficient pro- 
vocation—still, under my theory of gov- 
ernment, I should have felt bound by her 
action. I, however, may say 1 think she 
had justifiable cause, and I approve of her 
acts. I confered with the people before 
that act was taken, and counselled them 
that if they could not remain, that they 
should take the act. I hope none will 
confound this expression of opinion with 
the advocacy of the right of a State to re- 
main in the Union and disregard its con- 
stitutional obligations by nullification. 
Nullification and secession are indeed an- 
tagonistic principles. Nullification is the 
remedy which is to be sought and applied, 
within the Union, against an agent of the 
United States, when the agent has violat- 
ed constitutional obligations, and the State 
assumes for itself, and appeals to other 
States to support it. But when the States 
themselves, and the people of the States, 
have so acted as to convince us that they 
will not regard our constitutional rights — 
then, and then for the first time, arises the 
question of secession in its practical ap- 
plication. That great man who now re- 
poses with his fathers, who has been so 
often arraigned for want of fealty to the 
Union, advocated the doctrine of nullifica- 
tion, because it preserved the Union. It 
was because of his deep-seated attachment 
to the Union that Mr. Calhoun advocated 
the doctrine of nullification, which he 
claimed would give peace within the lim- 
its of the Union, and not disturb it, and 
only be the means of bringing the agent 
before the proper tribunal of the States for 
judgment. Secession belongs to a differ- 
ent class of rights, and is to be justified up- 
on the basis that the States are sovereign. 
The time has been, and I hope the time 
will come again, when a better apprecia- 
tion of our Union will prevent any one de- 
nying that each State is a sovereign in its 



own right. Therefore, I say I concur in 
the act of my State, and feel bound by it. 
It is by this confounding of nullification 
and secession that the name of another 
great man has been invoked to justify the 
coercion of a seceding State. The phrase 
"to execute the law," as used by General 
Jackson, was applied to a State refusing to 
obey the laws and still remaining in the 
Union. I remember well when Massachu- 
setts was arraigned before the Senate. The 
record of that occasion will show that I 
said, if Massachusetts, in pursuing the line 
of step.s, takes the last step which separates 
her from the Union, the right is hers, and 
I will neither vote one dollar nor one man 
to coerce her, but I will say to her. ' God 
speed !' " Mr. Davis argued that the equal- 
ity spoken of in the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence was the equality of a class in po- 
litical rights, referring to the charge 
against George III. for inciting insurrec- 
tion, as proof that it had no reference to 
slaves. '' But we have proclaimed our in- 
dependence. This is done with no hostil- 
ity or any desire to injure any section of 
the country, nor even for our pecuniary 
benefit, but from the high and solid foun- 
dation of defending and protecting the 
rights we inherited, and transmitting them 
unshorn to our posterity. There will be 
peace if you so will it, and you may bring 
disaster on every part of the country, if 
you thus will have it. And if you will 
have it thus, we will invoke the God of 
our fathers, who delivered them from the 
paw of the lion, to protect us from the rav- 
ages of the bear; and thus putting our 
trust in God, and our own firm hearts and 
strong arms, we will vindicate and defend 
the rights we claim.'' 

Such were the language and sentiments 
used by the present head of the Southern 
Confederacy. They clearly indicated a 
determined and firm purpose, not merely 
upon his part, but the slaveholding States 
generally, to struggle for and obtain a sep- 
aration from the Union It has been shown 
that the example set by South Carolina 
had no small effect in precipitating the 
contest, which any politician of foresight 
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wards forming a separate and independent 
government of the secessionists was inau- 
gurated by the meeting ot a congress of 
delegates from all the States which had se- 
ceded. This took place at Montgomery, 
Alabama ; and on the 8th ot February it 
unanimously agreed to a constitution and 
provisional government, which were order- 
ed to go into immediate operation. The 
idea of compromi.se or re-construction of 
the Federal Constitution was never once 
mooted ; indeed, from the tone and temper 
of this assembly, the bare mention of such 
a proposition would have been squelched 
at the outset, and di.'-cussion upon it put 
down, inasmuch as the president of the 
congress was Howell Cobb, of Georgia, 
one of Mr. Buchanan's ministry, and who, 
in that capacity, did his best to bring about 
the disruption which has taken place be- 
tween the North and the South. Having 
agreed to a constitution and a government, 
the next step was to elect a President and 
Vice-President. This was done with sin- 
gular alacrity, and the choice fell upon Jef- 
ferson Davis and Alexander TT. Stephens. 
Mr. Davis lost no time in selecting the 
members of his Cabinet. On the 21st of 
February, he nominated Mr. Toombs as 
Secretary of State, Mr. Memminger Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, and Mr. L. Pope 
Walker Secretary of War. The Confeder- 
ate Congress confirmed the nomination, 
and these gentlemen at once entered upon 
their official duties. As Mr. Toombs was 
the first prime minister of the Southern 
Confederacy, it will not be out of place to 
quote his message to the people of Geor- 
gia, telegraphed from Washington on the 
23d of December : 

"I came here to secure your constitu- 
tional rights, and to demonstrate to you 
that you can get no guarantee for those 
rights Irom your Nothern confederates. 
The whole subject was referred to a Cooi- 
mittee of Thirteen in the Senate. I was 
appointed on the Committee, and accepted 
the trust. I submitted propositions, which, 
so far from receiving decided support from 
a single member of the ilepublican party 
of the Committee, were all treated with 
derision or contempt. A vote was then 



taken in the Committee on amendments 
to the Constitution proposed by Hon. J. J. 
Crittenden, and each and all of them were 
voted against unanimously by the Black 
Republican members of the Committee. 
In addition to these facts, a majority of 
the Black Republican members ot'tlie Com- 
mittee declared distinctly that they had 
no guarantees to offer, which was silently 
acquiesced in by the other members. The 
Black Republican members of this Com- 
mittee of Thirteen are representative men 
01 the party and section, and, to the extent 
of my infornaation, truly represent them. 

"The Committee of Thirty-three on Fri- 
day adjourned for a week, without coming 
to any vote, after solemnly pledging them- 
selves to vote on all the pro} o.sitions then 
before them on that day. It is controlled 
by the Black Republicans, your enemies, 
who only seek to amuse you with delusive 
hope until your election, that you may de- 
feat the friends of secession. If you are 
deceived by them, it shall not be my fault. 
I have put the test fairly and frankly. It 
is decisive against you now. I tell you, 
upon the faith of a true man, that all fur- 
ther looking to the North for security for 
your constitutional rights in the Union 
ought to be instantly abandoned. It is 
fraught with nothing but ruin to your- 
selves and your posterity. Secession by 
the 4th day of March next should be thun- 
dered from the ballot-box by the unani- 
mous vote of Georgia on the 2d day of Jan- 
uary next. Such a voice will be your best 
guarantee for liberty, security, tranquili- 
ty, and glory. R. Too.mbs." 

While all these unmistakable symptoms 
of separation was going forward, there 
were Union-loving parties who held the 
hope of being able to avert the threaten- 
ed calamities of civil war. Accordingly, 
a body, terming itself the Peace Conven- 
tion, met at Washington, and organized 
permanently — ex- President Tyler being 
called to the chair. Having been in ses- 
sion from the 5ih to the 27th of February, 
they drew up a report of their delibera- 
tions, and submitted to the Senate of the 
United States a plan of adjustment which 
included seven amendments to the Consti- 



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CHRONICLES OP THE REBELLION OF 1861 



tution of the United States. We have 
transcribed these araendtnents, showing, 
as they do, the lenort.h wkich Union-loving 
men were disposed to go in order to avert 
anarchy, bloodshed, and confusion: 

" Sec. 1. In all the present territory of the 
United States north of the parallel of 36 deg. 
30 min. of north latitude, involuntary servi- 
tude, e.xcept in punishment of crimC; is pro- 
hibited. In all the present territory south of 
that line, the status of persons held to invol- 
untary service or labor, as it now exists, shall 
not be changed ; nor shall any law be passed 
by Congress or the Territorial Legislature to 
hinder or prevent the taking of such persons 
from any of the States of this Union to said 
territory, nor to impair the right arising from 
said relation ; but the same shall be subject to 
judicial cognizance in the Federal courts, ac- 
cording to the course of the common law. 
When any Territory north or south of said 
line, within such boundary as Congress may 
prescribe, shall contain a population equal to 
that required for a member of Congress, it 
shall, if its form of Government be republi- 
can, be aduiitted into the Union on an equal 
footing with the origi.ial States, with or with- 
out involuntary servitude, as the constitution 
of such State may provide. 

''Skc. 2. No territory shall be acquired by 
the United States, except by discovery, and 
for naval and commercial stations, depots, 
and transit routes, without the concurrence of 
a majority of all the Senators from Statss 
which allow involuntary servitude, and a ma- 
jority of all the Senators from States which 
prohibit that relation : nor shall territory be 
acquired by treaty, unless the votes of a ma- 
jority of the Senators from each class of States 
hereinbefore mentioned be cast as a part of 
the tviro- thirds majority necessary to the lati- 
lication of such treaty. 

" Sec. 3. Neither the constitution nor any 
amendment therecf shall be construed to give 
Congress power to regulate, abolish or con- 
trol within any State the relation established 
or recognized by the laws thereof touching 
persons held to labor or involuntary service 
therein, nor to interfere with or abolish invol- 
untary service in the District of Columbia 
.furiltho.ijt the consent of Maryland, and with- 



out the consent of the owners, or making the 
owners who do not consent just compensa- 
tion ; nor the power to interfere with or pro- 
hibit representatives and others from bring- 
ing with them to the District of Columbia, 
retaining, and taking away, persona so held to 
labor or service ; nor the power to interfere 
with or abolish involuntary service in places 
under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United 
States, within those States and Territories 
where the same is established or recognized ; 
nor the power to prohibit the removal or trans- 
portation of persons held to labor or involun- 
tary service in any State or Territory of the 
United States to any other State or Territory 
thereof, where it is established or recognized 
by law or usage ; and the right during trans- 
portation, by sea or river, of touching at 
ports, shores, and landings, and of landing in 
case of distress, shall exist; but not the right 
of transit in or through any State or Terri- 
tory, or of sale or traffic, against the laws 
thereof Nor shall Congress have power to 
authorize any higher rate of taxation on per- 
sons held to labor or service than on land. 
The bringing into the District of Columbia of 
persons held to labor or service, for sale, or 
placing them in depots to be afterwards trans- 
ferred to other places for sale as merchandise, 
is prohibited. 

" Sec. 4. The third paragraph of the sec- 
ond section of the fourth article of the consti- 
tution shall not be construed to prevent any 
of the States, by appropriate legislation, and 
through the action of their judicial and minis- 
terial officers, from enforcing the delivery of 
fugitives from labor to the person to whom 
such service or labor is due. 

"Sec. 5. The foreign slave trade is hereby 
forever prohibited ; and it shall be the duty 
of Congress to pass laws^ to prevent the im- 
portation of slaves, coolies, or persons held to 
service or labor, into the United States and 
Territories from places beyond the limits 
thereof. 

"Skc. 6. The first, third, and fifth sections, 
together with this section, of tht.se amend- 
ments, and the third paragraph of the second 
section of the first article of the constitution, 
and the third paragraph of the second secticui 
of the fourth article thereof, shall not be 



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55h( Poll of the ^Iniou Svmit. 



THE SEVENTH REGIMENT OF THE N. Y. S. M, 



In entering upon this portion of our task, we 
S3hct the Ssventh Regiment, of New York, as tlie 
first which merits record in these pages. It was 
tlie first to leave the citj- for the purpose of pro- 
tecting the National Capital from the intended in- 
vasion of the Secossioniits. 

With a promptitude which merits all commends, 
tion, the men composing the Seventh Regiment 
mustered for their march after only a few hours' 
notice. This was at the time of the great up- 
rising of the people of the Northern States, when 
the cry was general, loud, and determined for an 
appeal to arms. The beating of drums and the 
sound of martial music,' the waving of flags, and 
the exhibition of Union badges, cockades, breast- 
pins, brooches, charms, etc., upon the person of 
every man, woman or child who ventured forth, 
whether in the pursuit of business or pleasure, was 
the order of th; day. The dull, heavy tramp of 
the military was heard, and the glittering of their 
burnished arms seen in almost all our thorough- 
fares. The keen, shrill blast of the bugle's morn- 
ing-call, and the measured tread of sentinels around 
the recruiting depots, told unmistakably that the 
country was at war — that its peace had been bro- 
ken and i:s time-honored Constitution placed in 
jeopardy. Then, too, could be heard the warning 
voice of patriotic statesmen, the solemn pray- 
ers of gospel ministers, and the no less fervent 
and sincere ejaculations of "Amefll" from their 
hearers. The wild hurrahs with which every sen- 
timent breathing loyalty and devotion to the Union 
was taken up, and the avidity with which fathers 
delivered their sons to the requirements of their 
country, and wives consented that their husbands 
should forsa'iie them for a time and venture upon 
the battle-field — that arena of deadly conflict, 
carnage and human slaughter — was no less mar- 
velous than it was commendable. Patriotism so 
noble, so pure, so self-denying, seemed almost an 
inspiration of Heaven. No matter what country 
or what people we call to mind, the conduct and 
bearing of the citizens of the Northern States was 
one continued round of enthusiasm and genuine 
patriotism — which, if at all equalled, has never 
been surpassed. 

It was in this state of things that the Seventh 
Regiment, of New York, was calli^d upon to repair, 
without delay, to Washington, which was then 
threatened with an attack by th3 rebels. It had 



been preceded by the Sixth (Massachusetts) a 
day or two before, and, in passing through Bal- 
timore, had a narrow escape from the "Blood 
Tubs" and "Plug Uglies" who have ever dis- 
graced the chief city of Maryland. The chAracter 
of the attack and its results will be noticed when 
we give the muster-roll of the Massachusetts regi- 
ment. 

The news of the attack at Baltimore had been 
made known while the Seventh Regiment was be- 
ing mustered for the march. They expected to 
pass through Baltimore ; and, from the threats of 
the Secessionists, it was considered there would 
be bloody work. Nerertheless, although impressed 
with a full conviction of the dangers which threat- 
ened them, they were nothing daunted — they felt 
that they were on the side of justice and truth; 
and, with a firm reliance that the God of Battles 
would protect them from the murderous intentions 
of their enemies, they set out from New York on 
the afternoon of Friday, the 19th of April. 

The Seventh Regiment has ever been one of the 
most popular belonging to the city of New York— 
consequentl}-, it was to be expected that they 
would receive a great ovation. Nor wi^re those 
who indulged in such anticipations disappointed. 
The decorations of the streets along the line of 
march were superb. The thousands and tens of 
thousands who congregated along Broadway rent 
the air with cheers aad plaudits of the most deaf- 
ening and enthusiastic kind. Complimentary and 
highly gratifying as was the reception which was 
bestowed upon the Seventh Regiment on its de- 
parture, the men composing it were not much, if 
at all, elated at the honors which their fellow-cit- 
izens showered upon them. It was easy to trace 
in the solemn countenance of each and every man 
that he was setting out upon an important mis- 
sion. They were men who evidently felt that to 
them was assigned the duty of protecting with 
jealous care the Stars and Stripes which were em- 
blazoned on their regimental standards. To the 
credit of every man, from the colonel down to the 
humblest private, the march was conducted with 
order, preci«ion and strict military discipline. Al- 
though much temptation existed, there was not the 
slightest symptoms of a too free indulgence in 
"stimulants" — a circumstance which shows how 
careful Colonel Leffeits and his officers must have 
been. 



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In connection with the march down Broadway 
an incident occurred which is worth mention. On 
the balcony of the store of Ball, Black & Co., Col. 
Anderson took op a position, that he might have 
a full view of the magnificent appearance of the 
regiment. When he was discovered, there was a 
shout which the detractors of his fame ought to 
have heard. There stood before the masses a 
man who had proved that in his keeping the na- 
tional standard of the United States was safe, and 
that they who imputed to him anything appertain- 
ing to treachery or treason were libelers and slan- 
derers of the basest kind. Upon the occasion to 
which we allude, he was duly honored for his gal- 
lant conduct at Fort Sumter ; and no doubt every 
man of the Seventh felt that that conduct was 
worthy of imitation, and made up his mind to 
"go and do likewise." 

It was originally intended that the Seventh Regi- 
ment should proceed through Baltimore, and if 
opposed in that city, to inflict a signal chastise- 
ment upon the rowdies who so maliciously assault- 
ed the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment that veiy 
day. They had prepared themselves for the dan- 
gerous task which they proposed to execute. In 
addition to their small arms, the regiment took 
along with them two howitzer guns, to be worked 
by the troop and engineer corps. The officers, 
too, were provided with pistols of Colt's construc- 
tion. Had any engagement taken place at Balti- 
more, the consequences would have been fearful. 
Having arrived at Philadelphia, circumstances oc- 
curred which induced Col. Lofferts to change his 
plan of operations. He was notified by the Gov- 
ernor of Maryland and the civic authorities of 
Baltimore that the soil of Maryland should not be 
invaded by the march of Federal troops en route 
to Washington. This mandate would in all prob- 
ability have been disregarded, had there not been 
% difficulty in finding railway transit, inasmuch as 
the superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- 
road positively refused to provide cars for the trans- 
port of the regiment over his road. Another 
course had therefore to be adopted, and an order 
was reluctantly issued for the men to leave the 
cars at Philadelphia, and pass the time as best 
they could until some other arrangement was 
made to send them forward to Washington. Here 
Col. Lefferts displayed the utmost consideration 
for His men. He telegraphed his position to the 
War Department at Washington, and also sent on 
to New York for provisions and all other necessa- 
ries, which were to be forwarded by water to An- 
napolis, Maryland. Whilst waiting for means of 
transportation, an incident of peculiar interest 
took place. The regiment was temporarily bou- 
liaced in the railroad depot ; thousands of visitors 



thronged the building, looking at the men with the 
greatest possible interest, and wishing them the 
best success in the important duty which they had 
taken in hand. In the midst of the bustle and ex- 
citement which prevailed, an aged lady, of respect- 
able appearance, entered the building, carrying » 
large marketrbasket on each arm, and anxiou.sly 
desiring to see some of the officers. One of the 
sergeants was directed to ascertain the nature of 
her business, when she stated it in something like 
the following terms : 

" I heard that some of you soldier men hadn't 
got anything to eat, and specially that you were 
out of bread. Now, I've brought you some that 
is real good, home-made bread — some of it I made 
myself, and some of it a neighbor made for me. 
Here, take it— you are welcome to it. I want to 
find some one to give it to." Some of the men, of 
course, proposed to pay her for it; but she posi- 
tively declined, saying : ''No, no; I want to give 
it to you. I had a boy once who was a soldier in 
the regular army ; he was all through the Mexican 
war, and he was killed in battle. I always feel as 
if I couldn't ever do too much for the soldiers. I 
can't give you much, boys," continued she, wiping 
away the tears that ivould come at the thought of 
her own " boy" ; " but here's my bread, and I hope 
some of you may like it. There's a plate of nice, 
fresh butter there, too ; and you may have the 
basket, and the plates, and everything. May be 
my boy has wanted some bread some time, and I 
hope some mother gave it to him." Here the old 
lady, after a minute's struggle, broke entirely 
down, and with the words — "My poor boy— my 
dear Alfred!" — she hurriea awa}', leaving her bas- 
kets behind her. This incident was not without 
its good effect, for not one of all the spectators 
bat was touched to the heart by the sincere grief 
of the poor old woman, and not one but thought 
better of a cause that could command a gift so 
earnest and pure, though so humble ; and perhaps 
a few were made to think more tenderly of other 
mothers who might so soon be called to mourn 
other sons, slain by their country's enemies. The 
old lady's name was found to be Magilton, and she 
had one son educated at West Point, one killed in 
Mexico, and a third son is Magilton, the circus 
performer, who was one of the very cleverest men 
in the whole profession. This last-named one, re- 
centlj', while doing the "trapeze' performance in 
England, fell from a height of thirty-five feet, 
striking on his back and shoulders, inflicting inju- 
ries of which he may probably die. 

It is by no means necessary to recount all the 
incidents that took place during the delay of the 
regiment at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad de- 
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aa possible under the circumstances. The military 
authorities at Washington were very inattentive 
to Col. Lefferts' inquiry what to do; and after a 
halt of fourteen hours, he determined to proceed 
by sea to Annapolis. He made arrangements for 
this purpose, and with as little loss of time as pos- 
sible, he marched his men and baggage on board 
the sieamer Boston on Saturday evening, April iiOth. 
The voyage was somewhat perilous, from the 
vast crowds of men and officers on board the 
Boston. Great privations and inconveniences 
were endured, but all bore up with the most cour- 
ageous fortitude. It was 4 P. M. of the 23d before 
the Seventh Regiment landed at the dock of the 
Naval School, at Annapolis. Fresh difficulties 
had to be encountered at this point, added to 
which were the flying rumors that the enemy were 
in strong force along the road by which the regi- 
ment was to march to Washington. For all this, 
they did not evince any fear or trepidation. The 
general feeling was in favor of having a brush 
with the rebels ere they arrived at the National 
Capital. They felt, too, that they were bound to 
give the South some tangible proof that they were 
not so easily mastered as the Southern rebels 
boasted. Aft«r a series of delays. Col. Lefferts 
was enabled to take his departure for Washington, 
which it reached in safety, amid the hearty con- 
gratulations of the citizens and to the great relief 
of the executive authorities, who had spent several 
days and nights of anxiety. In all the march 
from New York to Washington every man of the 
regiment gave safficient evidence of every soldier- 
ly quality. They bore hunger and privation of the 
severest kind without a murmur ; nor were they 
less remarkable for their readiness to perform the 
severe military duty which was assigned them. 
In the trenches upon Arlington Heights, and on 
sentry, they have, one and all, proved efficient and 
trustworthy soldiers. They were the means of 
saving the National Capital at a very critical mo- 
ment ; and those who run them down for return- 
ing when their term of service had expired, not 
merely reason illogically, but do the men a meas- 
ure of much injustice. 

The Seventh Regiment was only engsged for 
thirty days' service ; and when their time was up, 
the United States authorities made arrangements 
to allow them to return home. This did not arise 
from any distrust of their patriotism and loyalty, 
nor the least feeling of dissatisfaction with their 
•xtreme efficiency as soldiers in the field. On the 
contrary, all these desirable traits in the defender 
of his country in the hoar of danger had been fully 
exemplified, and were officially endorsed by the 
highoit military authorities at Washington.* It 
* See Bupleraentary note at the end of the roll. 



was motives of discreet prudence and policy which 
swayed the Secretary of War to send home the Sev- 
enth Regiment. As it had always been a most popu- 
lar regiment on the battle-field, so its departure 
therefrom was regarded with extreme regret. This 
wasveryplainlymanifestedwhen their farewell pa- 
rade took place at Washington. Every one, civil- 
ian and military, vied with each other who could 
most honor a body of men who had proved them- 
selves an ornament to the profession of arms and 
a lasting credit to the city from which they hailed 
They left Washington, on their return for New 
York, on Friday, the 30th of June ; and before do- 
ing so, conferred an act of extreme kindness and 
hospitality to one of the regiments less affluent 
than themielves. They presented to them all 
their camp equipage and many other articles 
equally useful and valuable to a campaigning 
army. The recipients of this desirable gift were 
the New York Fire Zouaves. 

On Saturday, the 1st of June, the Seventh 
Regiment re-entered New York, where a hearty 
greeting was bestowed upon them. Detractive 
remarks had been made by some censorious 
minds, who never can perceive excellence in any 
man or body of men, except they ar« themselves 
the centre of such excellence. It was, therefore, 
endeavored to make the reception as cool as pos- 
sible. But the effort failed— signally failed— and 
Colonel Lefferts and his men entered their native 
city amid the loud and enthusiastic welcomes of 
congregated thousands, who uttered sincers and 
heartfelt thanks that the great disposer of all events 
had not thinned the ranks, either by the ravages 
of disease, or the more terrible havoc of bloody 
war. The regiment left 921 strong, and returned 
numbering 1356,* officers and men — another proof 
of the extreme care of the commander and the great 
attention of the medical officers. Dr. T. M. Cheese- 
man and Dr. John W. Dalton. It would, howev- 
er, be an act of injustice if, in this brief sketch, we 
omitted to note that much praise is due to the 
chaplain of the Seventh, the Rev. Mr. Weston. 
The Philosopher who scans the universe — takes cog- 
nizance of the relationship of cause and effect — 
of man — what he is and what he can be made, ac- 
cording as his actions are swayed by the proper 
exercise of the laws planted within his triune na- 
ture: body, head and heart— is well aware that in 
proportion to the influence which the moral senti- 
ments control our every-day habits, and induce 
sobriety, correctness of deportm«nt and rectitude 
of purpose, so will be the healthy condition of all 
those powers which make up our physical organ- 
ization, and either sharpen or blunt the most glo- 

♦ This includes a Dumber of volunteers who af- 
terwards joined. 



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rious portion of existing humanity— intellect. In- 
fluenced by the truth of thin philosophical theo- 
rem, the Rev. Chaplain ofthe Seventh was"in3tant 
in s.-ason and out of season." His solicitude for 
the moral and spiritual advancement of the troops 
under his ministerial charge enabled him to im- 
part such lessons as induced, if not practical piety, 
correct morals. These prevented undue excess in 
anything dangerous to the physical constitution, 
preserved health, and rendered the men comforta- 
ble and happy under all the sufferings, hardships 
and privations ^yhich they had to encounter. 

Having now glanced at the part which the New 
York National Guard took in the campaign against 
the Southern rebels, we deem it a mere act of just- 
ice to notice more in detail the slanderous imputa- 
tions cast upon them in consequence of their re- 
turning home before the termination of the con- 
flict. It has been alleged against this regiment, 
that owing to their return, they manifested a lack 
of military courage, proved that they were only 
milk-and-water patriots, and more fitted for par- 
lor and drawing-room drill than to perform all 
or any of the fatiguing duties of a campaign-life in 
an enemy's country. The facts given above con- 
fute such accusations, and we feel bound to say 
that the spirit which actuated their autliors was 
not becoming, and their intention and object 
spiteful and malevolent in the extreme. 

A cursory glance at the true state of the case 
will show that the Seventh Regiment was perfect- 
ly entitled to return, whilst it will be equally clear 
that they proved themselves soldiers of the fore- 
most class, and did not lack a single quality essen- 
tial to an army going forth to conquer an enemy. 
The Seventh Regiment mustered at an hour's call. 
It wa-i engaged to protect the Capital until the 
U. S. Government could send forward troops from 
all quarters of the Union. From the time when 
their services were called for until they set out 
upon the march was only twelve hours. The 
prompt response of Col. Lcflerts and his men at 
once checked the designs of the rebel army, and 



kept back the hordes of traitorous adventurers 
who contemplated the capture of Washington. 
Now, for this one act alone they are entitled to 
the thanks and lasting gratitude of the country. 
It was a deed which foiled the enemy at the out- 
set, and drew from him imprecations— loud and 
hellish. 

Those who murmured at the return of the Sev- 
enth Regiment should have remembered that its 
members are mainly composed of men who are 
engaged in business pursuits. In the extreme 
hurry with whicii they were dispatched, the great- 
er portion of them left their affairs in a very dis- 
arranged condition, and for them to have remain- 
ed longer away would have been totally ruinous to 
their interests and property. It should be borne 
in mind that their period of service wa.-! thirty 
days; and at the end of that time, such was the 
excellent state of the Union army, that there was 
no pressing necessity for their services; conse- 
quently, every one must admit that it would have 
been both ungenerous and unjust to ask them to 
remain any longer at military duties, and thereby 
cause their business affairs to get into greater 
confusion and probably irreparable arrangement. 
Upon a calm and unbiised retrospect of the con- 
duct of this regiment, from the time it set out, on 
the 19th of April, until its return, on the 1st of 
June, all reasonable-minded men will admit that 
it has been equal to any other body of troops in 
the field, that both officers and men performed 
every duty assigned them in a commendable and 
efficient manner, and that they bore an amount of 
fatigue and privation which would test the physi- 
cal powers and severely try the nerves of the 
hardiest veteran. campaigner. It is ever the part 
of the envious to carp and cavil at everything and 
everybody superior to themselves— and, as regards 
the Seventh Regiment, this is particularly so— show- 
ing how apt and striking are the words of the 
poet: 

" — Base envy withers 

At a#otlui'8.joy. aud bates the excellence 
It cannot reach." 



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Putter §&n &f t\u ^mnilx ^^e^imcnt, f. f . 3, p. 



REGIMENTAL STAFF. 



Colonel, 

tit. Colonel, 

Major, 

Adjutant, - 

Q,uiirt^rmaster, 

Commissary. 

Paymaster, 

As-'t Paymaster, 

Chaplain, - 

Ordin;tne« Officer, 

Surgeon, 

1st Ass't Surgeon, 



- Marshall Lefferf.s. 
Wm. A. Pond, did not go. 

Alexander Shaler. 

- J. Henry Liiebenau. 

li. VV. Winciiester. 
- - - Wm. Patten. 

- - A. Kemp. 

- Meredith Rowland. 

- Roswell H. Weston. 

- .lohn A. Baker. 

Oheeseman. 

- John C. Balton. 



2nd Ass't Surgeon, 
Hos. Steward, - 



— Tnttlft. 
Bedford. 



NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF. 



Sergeant Major, 
Color Sergeants, 

Commissary's Sergeant, 
Act. Q,uart'r 8gt. 

Ordinance Sgt. 
Kight Gen 1 Gntde, 
Left Gen'l Guide, - 



- R. C Ratlibone. 

S W. Scott. 

F. H. Pearce. 

L. L. S Clearman. 

Isaac Dean. 

- R C Weed. 

- John H. Draper. 

- S. (J. Ryder. 

- J. J. Morrison. 



FIRST COMPANY. 

Captain, W. B. Rensel, 
1st Lieut. C. H. Meday, 
'2nd " J. L. Han way, 
Orderly Sgt. "Wm. H. Hume, 
2nd •' H. C. Robe, 

3rd " P. G. Bogart, 

4th " H. M. Funston, 

5th " F. O. Pierce, 

1st Corporal, J. K. Shephard, 
2na - .^ — 

3rd 
4th 
ath 

6 th 

7 th 



C 8. Wilson, 

C. H. Ketchen, 
Wm. Davidson, 
G. M. Diggs, 

D. Li. Hays, 

E. Trenor, 



PRIVJTKS. 

Allen. J. H. 

Archer, A. S. 
Asten, T. S. 
Appeles, T. L. 
Buchanan, '>. T). 
HiineherholT, W. B. 
Borrowson. (J. 
Hryce, G. W G. 
B.OW1., W. H. 
Bagart, H. Y. 
Belknap, Aug. 
Barr, S. C. 
Briggs, C. A. 
Bang, T. J. 
Bar num. H. C. 
Bell, S. L. 
Olark, N. 
Olark, J. R. 
■Cooper, Wm. H. 
ijooper, T. W. 
Cable, J. H. 
■Clough, Henry 
Cook, G. T. 
Cowperthwaite, F. K. 
DerL-rndoff, 0. P. 
Davidge, R. U. 
Drusljw, N. J. 
Oavis, B. F. 
Donaldson, W. J. 
Darling, H. 
Kills, Henrv, 
Evans, R. it. 
Eckel, E. H. 
Forbes, Ed. 



Grant, T. J. 
Griffith, T. FT. 
Goinperts, G. S. 
Hume, G. W. 
Howe, C. H. 
Hvde, E. J. 
Hart, O H. 
Hart, F. H. 
Hewlett, A.. C. 
Hamilton, Robert 
Heuberer, C. 
Hashlasher, George 
Humphreys, N. S. 
Immea, John H. 
Kingsland, D C. 
Kirkland, T. S 
Kahler, Frederick 
Kurtz, William 
Kelly, J. G; 
Leggett, Samuel 
Lindemann, H. 
Le Fort, George 
Lyon, 

Lowber, .1. H. 
Murray, James 
Mcllvaine, F. E. 
McKruaw J. P. 
Merkle, Aug. 
Meday, G. U. 
Miller, J. H. 
Mott, J. W. 
Mar^ardt, C. 
Orpeu, U. W. 
Patterson, Luke 
Perry, D. O. 
Plass, 

Rogers, G. L. 
Rawson, E. B. 
Reynolds, C L. 
Ring, G. W. 
Spoltord, C. H. 
Sibell, J. W. 
Slocomb, T. D. 
Spellman, N. B. 
Snvder, E L. 
Shields, Wm. H. 
Sumner, A. U. 
Slugg, H. B. 
Saunders, G. F. 
Sinionson, .J. U. 
Smith, F. A. 
Spring, E. A. 
Swartz, J. n. 



Sharp, "William A. 
Seaver, T A. 
Strumay, Albert 
Toed, R. C. 
Trenor, H. H. 
Trenor, J. F. 
Trenor, J. J. 
Trenor, J. Jr. 
Thwait, S. C. 
Tugman, C. A. 
"Villiertj, Thomas 
V,an Ness, George 
Villeplait, A. B. 
Villeplait, W. D. H. 
"Welcker, John 
Wilbur, E. R. 
Wetmore, Aug. 
Waldro , R. S. 
Wheeler, W. P. 
Whiteman, 
Yost, Henry. 



SECOND COMPANY. 

Capt. Emmons Olarlc, 
1st Lieut. Noah L. Farnham, 
2od Lieut. Eilward Bernard, 
Irit Sgt. Peter Palmnr, 
2nd Sgt. .Joseph E. Macfarland, 
3rd Sgt. Charles S.Van Nordeu, 
4th Sgt. Henry B. Dyer, 
5th Sgt. David Miller, 
1st Uorp'l Richard F. Ware, 
2nd " Richard D. Fonder, 
3rd " George A. Bernard, 
4th " Charles .S. Janes, 
Lance Cor. Rob't 8. Gould, Jr. 
•' Reginald H. Williams, 
" Rodney C. Ward, 
" Tiios. VV. K. Holder, 

PRIVATES. 

W. G. Allison, 
R. Alli-son, 
J. B. Amerman, 
F. G. Ageus, 
J. B. Ames, Jr. 
H. H. Alden, 
.1. M. Aldeo, 
W. T. Bucken, 
R. C Buckan, 



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H. Bri?tow, 
a. S. Burnet, 
B. Brower. 
J. C. Bloomfield, 
VT. A. Burtis, 
A. M. Burtis, 
O. F. Booth. 

D. T. Boardman, 
<>. L. Buckley, 
E B:iker, 

W. H. Codey, 
S. W. Codey, 
W. O. Ohapman, 
A. A. Curtis, 
W. Coltou, 
A. M. Cliace, 
G- Debenham, 
"W. L. Darling, 
H P. EvelPth, 
\V. Edwards, 
W. R. Eadie, 
G M. Evaas, 
"W. T. Farnham, 
S. Flore, te, 
A. Fiudlay, 
F. Foster," 

A. Garrison, 
H. G. Gregory, 
F. Gregory, 

B. Gregory, 
H. Gordou, 

J. K. Gittens, Jr. 
H. Hives, 

F. A. ilarter, 
J. IS. Hiivens, 
X. A. Halsev, 
H. r. HaUeV. 
R. F. Hatfield, 
A. Hailield. Jr. 
T. L Hatfield, 
O. Hall, 

C. S. Hill, 

W. M Haddock, 
H. G. Healev. 
W. Hadlpy, 
M. Li. Jones, 
J. S. King, 
R. H. Lane, 
J. Lawrence, 
R. W. Leonard, 
R. McKinlev, 
W A. McDouald, 
W. H. Mix, 
E. Mix. 
J. B. Mix, 
S. T. Mather, 
T. 1). Mather, 

E. McManus, 
J. W. Miller, 
1). J. Miler, 

F. S- Morrison, Jr. 
W. Xodine, 

C. Overton, 

.1. Oakev, 

H. L. Phalen, 

G. Putnam, 
H. M. Porter, 

G. 8. Phipps, 
1>. Postley. 
W. S. Phvife, 
J. W. Powell, 
G. Y. Quilhird, 
J. F. Russell, 
J. Koome, 

C. .1. Ruscher, 
J. W. RooTie, 
G. W. Selover, 
H. F. Savage, 
R. L Salisbury, 
S. R 'Ji.ri'thers, 
C. S. Sterling, 
J. Stereason, 



c. 


C. 


Shelley, 


E. 


W 


Stration, 


W 


. B 


. See, 


J. 


A. 


Smith, 


G 


B 


Smith, 


G 


M 


. Smiih, 


E. 


Sturgis, 


D. 


H. 


Tuttle, 


C. 


H 


Tav, 


G 


T. 


Tvbring, 


J. 


H. 


Tavlor, 


A. 


Tavlor, 


J. 


W 


Vandewater, 


J. 


S. 


Vanderbilt, 


J. 


T. 


W. Vandervoort, 


\V 


. T 


an Dnzer, 


J. 


W 


Ison, 


J. 


Williamson, Jr. 


E 


•Ward, 


G 


.1. 


L. Wright, 


D 


T. 


Way, 


E 


W 


illiams. 


E 


B 


Webster, 


E 


Whitfield. 



THIED COMPAST. 

Captain, James Price, 
1st Lieut. John J. Wickstead, 
2nd " Geor?*" T Haws, 
Sergeant, .Tohn W. Murray, 
" Theo B. Stephens, 

" Richard L. Leggett, 

" Loni? Fitzgerald, 

" Jos. Dore, 

Corporal, Wm. P Baily, 
•' De Wirt Clin'ton, 

" Chas. B. Owen, 

" G. D. Tracy, 

" C. R. Crane, 

" Louis B. Rader. 

PRIVATES. 

Abbot Chas. A. 
All-Ti, Henry 
Barret, .lohn 
Banks, J. E. 
Bogart. Chas. C. 
Burdett, J. .Tr. 
Bend, Wm. B- 
Bacon, Geo. W. 
Barnes, A. C. 
Burton, W. C. 
Barker, C J. 
Butler, B Jr. 
Broderick. Wm. E. 
Beers. W. H. 
Mrown, Cha*. L. 
Bennedict, E. F. 
Bunee, T. D. 
Bomford, G. N. 
Chapman, .Tos. H. 
(-olgate, Chnt-in G. 
Conroy, Thos. L. 
Coiiroy, Wm F. 
Collini, Wm. S. 
Collins. Geo. S. 
Cook, Vincent L. 
Oovell. Chas S. 
Cheesman, T. M. 
Clinton, C. W. 
Clowes, T F. 
Crane, LP. 
Cheesbrough, Wm. H. 
Cheesbroush, R. A. 
Doolittle, Jas. K. 
Eartnan, 
Elliot, Thos. 
Ferry. iJarins Jr. 
Foster Clin'on, 



Fish, L. A. 
Gendar, Thomas V. 
Graham, .Tos. F. 
Gnlaser, Philip 
Hickcox, T. N. 
Hurst. Fred. R. 
Hale, Wm. D. 
Hughes, Charles 
Holt, Ed. O. 
Hoxie, Wm. E. 
Irving, Thos. R. 
Jordan, C. N. 
Kennedy, Chas. 
Lawrence, Geo. P. 
Lewis, Curtis 
Merle, Chas. F. 
Mott, Henry H. 
Melligan, S. G. 
McKibbe*. G. H. 
Blarshall, iGeorge 
"Marshall, Alexander 
Oakley, Alfred 
Oakley, N. H 
Portington, R. C. 
Peterson, C. 
Pollard, D. A. 
Pollock, W. J. 
Piatt, Wm. C. 
Radcliffe, H. G. 
Robinson, W. G. 
Reeve. I^^aao T. 
Requel, G. W. 
Sebert, J. F. 
Sebart, .Ino. 
Sfxton, S. -T. M. 
Spooner, H. F. 
Simonson, Jos. 
Smith, Eugene B. 
Smith, A M. C. Jr. 
Smith. W. H. 
St. John. W. M. 
Tuthill, S. B. 
Tremain, H E. 
Tremain, W. R. 
Van Riper, .Jas. 
Van Wjck, W. E. 
Van Honten, Isaac 
Vap uuck, 
W^arren, -James R. 
AVarren, .Jos. C. 
Well man, W. P. 
"Whitnev, W. M. 
Woolf, H. G. 
Wright, John O. 
Wright. David F. 
Wieks, Geo. J. 
Wilson. Jas. W. 
White, O. G. 
Watkins, W. L. 
Yard, W. S. 



FOCRTH COHPAXY. 

Captain. W. H. Riblet, 
1st Lieu't, William Gurney, 
2nd " John W Bogrrt, 
1st Sgt., Peter M. Mevers, 
2nd " Edward W. Little, 
Srd " Jeremiah V. Me?erole, 
4th " Alfred B. Chapman, 
5th " Henrv Everdell, 
1st Corp'l, Charles E. Bogert, 
2nd " Robert H. Eddy, 
Srd " Edward R. Young, 
4^h " .lames Farnam, 
Drummer, Henry Eidman. 



Ay more, J. S. 
Aikiuan, A. 11. 



CHRONICLES OF THE REBELLION OF )86i 



Puntlna, R. S. 
B auvelt, J, H. 
Bexgs, J. W. 
Breeden, Abner H. 
Breeden, Charles E. 
Balen, Peter Jr. 
Bruop, Thomas 
Burlick, C. E. 
Oanfield, Jesse, W. 
Carter, Herman G-. 
Carpenter, Silas 8. 
Crary, Charles H. 
Crist, Stephen B. 
Crocker, G-eorge A. 
Cheeseborough, State 
Collamore, Gilman 
Davenport, Charles V. 
Dougherty, Horace F. 
Dickerson, G-eorge A. 
Dabois, J. S. L. 
Ewen, Edward D. 
Ewen, Austin D. 
Ewen, jSTorman 
Earle. Edward 
Everdell, Francis 
Edwin, W. A. 
Kay, Logan 
Fay, P. H. 

Fairbanks, Charles M. 
Ferry, Edwin \V . 
Fielding, W. S. 
Fisk, W. E. 
Farrington, Adam 
Gautier, Samuel 
Gaston, Wm. 
Haywood, Melville 
Hall, H. M. 
Halsted, Robert 
Harrison, Edward A. 
Hennesey, John F. Jr. , 
Hollingshead, William M. 
Holly, Henry H. 
Huntington, Charles, P. 
Husted, Theo. I. 
Hyde, M W. 
Hickox, Charles R. 
Honeywell, Charles R. 
Jarvis, John 
Karr, Frank D. 
Kipp, William H. 
Lawrence, Gr. A. 
Lawrence, Edward L. 
Lambert, William 
Lefferts, Marshall, Jr. 
Little, John L. 
Mallon, James E. 
Manning, G. F. 
Marshall, Alex. S 
Mills, James 
Miller, W. R. 
Merrit, Abraham 
Morse, L. W. 
Moies, John K. 
Nichols, William L. 
Nugent, Henry 
Olssen, Edward J. 
Osborne, E. K. 
Owen, Mortimer B. 
Ontcalt, Cornelius B. 
Peacock, Thomas R. 
Ridden, John C. 
Ryan, James E. 
Roome, W. H. 
Sanford, George H. 
Sangster, George 
Smith, Samuel J. 
Smith, Frank K. 
Smith, William H. 
Smith, Ernest L. 
Smith, Milton 
Snodgrass, Arch"d A. 
Spaulding, Zeph. S. 



Starr, Samuel H. 
^teele, William S. 
Steele, T'eter H. 
Sharp, S. C. 
Sinclair, Hyatt 
Swords, Charles H. 
Taylor, Jos. D. 
Weyman. Edward H. Jr. 
Wood, William H 
Waltz, Ernst L. 
Wright, W. C. 
Woodhonse, L. G. 



FIFTH COMPANY. 

Capt. W. A. Speaight, 
Lieut. O. Corley, 
" J. Gay lor, 
Sgt. W T. Sprole, 
" J. D Earle, 
" J. P. Miller, 
«' J. B. Holbrook, 
" W. Seward, Jr. 
Corp'l E. K. Halsted, 
" P. D. Brainted, 
" W. Wall, Jr. 
" G. G. Barnes, 
" W. Scott, 
" D. O. Vanderbilt, 
" T. E. Whitney, 
J. L. Eckel, 

PKIVATES. 

Baker, T. E. 
Barrett, G. P. 
Banks, S. A. 
Berleu, H. 
Braisted, M. P. 
Bissell. G. W. 
Bogardus, A. 
Berlin, H. 
Benedict, C. A. 
Benedict, 2nd, W. G. 
Bell, W. G. 
Brusle, W. A. 
Bischoir, H. 
Cowles, G. W. 
Corrie, W. E. 
Crane, J. H. 
Currie, M. A. 
Denecke, F. W. 
Fleet, A. 
Franklin, J. B. 
Fuller, B. W. 
Fisher, P. 
Frothingham, C. F, 
Filley, F. 0. 
Foss, G. M. 
Gowdey, W. H. 
Gambling, W. M. 
Godley, J. L. 
Genin, E. 
Gaddis, M. A. 
Hyde, A. W. 
Husted, G. M. 
Harward, W. E. 
Holbrook, J. W. 
Haynes, M. C. 
Hutchings, E W. Jr. 
Hayden, A. L. 
Hawley, O. L. 
Hawkins, M T. 
Isidor, S. 
Jacobs, I. 
Jauncey, J. Jr. 
Keefler, B. K. 
Kingsland, E. A. 
Kingsland, W. H. 
Kappner, J. G. 
Kellinger, S. M. 



Lester, D. B. 
Laoe, J. H. 
Liader, C F. 
Moore, W. A. 
Margarv, T. 8. 
Mezzetti, G. W. 
Martin, B. T. 
McDonald, .J. 
Mitchell, J. M. 
Maper, J. H. 
Nixon, C. L. 
Noe, A. 
Noe, A A. 
Prentiss, A. T. 
Price, W. L. 
Rink, P. A. 
Rosenbaum, J. F. 
Reed, R. 
Romaine, W; A. 
Richards, L. M. 
Rackfeller, M. S. 
Reynolds, M. T. 
Schoonmaker, 8. A. 
Seligman, S. 
Sullivan, T. J. 
Selig, A. 
Htew, L. 
Stagers, E. N. 
Samson, J. D. 
Sadler, T. 
Skidmore, T. S. 
Stroud, W. E. 
Stewart, W. 
Sargent, J. 
Sutherland, M. T. 
Schoonmaker. T. S. 
Thomas, G. M. 
Thorp, S. 8. 
Tucker, G. 
Timolat, H. N. 
Wood, J. W. 
Whitehorn, W. A. 
■Webb, W. 
Waldron, T. 8. 
Waterbury, M. V. 
Yeaton, A. 8. 
Young, E. P. 

HONORARY MEJIBERS. 

Alberts, W. 
Bailey, S. B. 
Burr, J. H. 
Clough, Theo. 
Cook, T. F. 
Eckel, F. 
Grain, F. Jr. 
Halsted, W. P. 
Johnson. J. 
Kelly, R. J. 
Kiersey, P. H. 
Leon, M. J. 
Millard, F. 
Myers, G. 
McGregor, J. 
Nugent, P. 
Petrie, H A. 
Sayre, J. D. 
Sllva, John 
Stokley, N. B. 
Utter, E. D. 
Watson, S. W. 
White, O. E. 
Wilcox, E. R. 
Wilson, M. A. 



SIXTH COMPANY. 

Capt. R. M. Never, 

1st Lieut, R. F. Halsted, 

2nd " Jos. B. Young, 



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Orderly, Gpo. W. Ford, 
SndSergt. C. G. Bartleit, 
3rd " ■*. S. Brady, 
4tli " J. F. Kuggles, 
5tll " N. V/. 8. OaUin, 
1st Gorp'l, W. B. Freeman, 
2nd " Ohas Walke, 
3id " G-ouv. Kemble, Jr. 
4th " E. O. Bird, 
Lance Gorp'l, P. Schuyler, Jr. 
" " L. M. Carnes. 

PKIVATES. 

Alex. Annan, 
Henry Arnold, 
W. J. Bartow, 

F. B. Bassett, 
J. Benkard, Jr. 

E. J. Birmingham, 
A. U. Bissell, 
E. Bowdoin, 
(leo. Boyden, 
J. H. Bradbury, 

G. G. Brinckerhoff, 
O. E. Brown, 

C. S. Brown, 
G-. L. Browning, 
O. J- Cambreleng, 
8amuel Carey, 
P. K. Chadwick, 
Flovd Olarkson, 
G. H. Coggeshall, 
A. K. Cogswell, 
Geo. 8. Comstock, 
H. M. Congdon, 
W. Congdon, 
Poinsett Cooper, 

E. A. Oowdrey, 

F. H. Cowdrey, 
Edward Cozzens, 
J. D. W. Cutting, 
L. L. Ouvillier, 
W. B. Dick, 
Ritner Dock, 

A. Douglas, 
J. Duryee, 
T. O. Ebaugh, 
Geo. F. Edgar, 
A. M. Elsworth, 
J. B Ezhardt, 
Jno. Erving, 

D. W. O. Falls, 

G. C. Ferris, 
O. E. Ford, 
J. A. Foster, 
J. E. Foster, 
J. W. French, 
W. C. Frost, 
C. C. Gardiner, 

E. L. Halsted, 
Bchuyler Hamilton, 

F. Harrison, 

J. H. H. Hawes, 
J. E. Hayes, 
P. Jaudon, 
Elisha Jenkins, 
Edward Kemp, 

C. A. Kimball, 
A. F. King, 

R. King, 
A. J. Lamb, 
E. Laraque, 
S. B. Lawrence, 
W. H. Lawrence, 

D. Marrenner, 
J. McLaren, 

J. J. McLaren, 
a: McNulty, 

G. L. Middlebrook, 
L. H. Miller, 

Geo. Palmer, 
8. H. L. Rankin, 



J. P. Raymond, 
B. H. Bobbins, 
W. P. Roome, 
T. P Bowe, 
W. P. Ryckman, 
M. Ryder, 

B. G. Shaw, 
W. G. 8haw, 
A. E. Sheldon, 

C. G. Smedberg, 
H. A. Btill, 

R. H. Stillwell, 
W. A. Stoutenberg, 

E. C. Bturges, 

N. W. dtuyveeant, Jr. 

C. T. Sctton, 

H. Taylor, 

H. T. Teer, 

C. "W. Thomae, 

G. F. Thumae, 

G. H. Thorpe, 

J. W. Timpson, 

C. H. Tomes, 

F. A. T Tracy, 
W. W. Tracy, 

F. C. Tucker, 

W. E. Ulshoeffer, 

E. W. Van Benscifioten, 

W. H. Vance, 

C. F. Van Dnzer, 
W. R. Vermilye, Jr. 

G. B. Vernon, 

D. M. Walduck, 
G. B. Watts, 
Jas. Weeks, 

E. N. West, 
B. Weston, 

F. A. Wheeler, 

G. H. White, 
W. T. Whiting, 
Geo. W. Wilson, 

F. M. Winston, 
W. W. Winthrop, 
W. 8. Wood, 

G. W. Young, 
M. Young. 



SEVENTH COMPANY. 

Capt. John Monroe, 
1st Lieut. J. P. Schemerhorn, 
2nd " J. D. Moriarty, 
let Sergt. C. H. Winans, 
2nd " E. S. Henry, 
3rd " John L- Cameron, 
4th " Chas. Hobbs, Jr. 
5th " Geo. W. Eley, 
1st Corpl. H. S. Bidwell, 
2nd " B. H. Bowerman, 
3rd " Thomas E. Delano, 
4th " Jno. J. Coger, 
1st Lance Cor. J. H. W. Kemp, 
2nd " " Thos. R. Gooch, 

3rd " " W. H. Smith, 

4th " " E. M. Felt. 



Allcoke, R. S. 
Anderson, J. W. 
Annable, Thos. H. 
Avery, John 
Barker, L. E. 
Barnes, C. C. 
Bennett, A. C. W. 
Bennett, C. F. 
Bogert, A. Schuyler 
Bootman, E. W. 
Breck, C J. 
Brittone, H. H. 
Brittone, E. 



Callendar, W. E. 
Chatfield, H. 8. 
Clievaiier, Geo. 
Clarke, J. L. 
Colliijs, 

Cortelyou, P. C. 
Crane, E. S. 
Cravy, 

Curtis, Robert E. 
Delano, J. 
Delamaiter. C. H. 
Donaldson, E. 
Drew, W. 

Dunscombe, J. H U- 
Duryee. W. B. C. 
Easton, B. C. 
Eddy, E. Jr. 
Ely, Jos. W. Jr. 
Fitcb, G. R. 
Fowler, D. H. 
Gibson, R. P. 
Gibson, W. H. 
Godfrey, P. C. 
Hall. Chas. 
Hart, H. 

Hathaway, T, E. 
Hartwell, 
Hay den, J. T. 
He wet t, 

Holdridge D. H. 
Holmes, Geo. F. Jr. 
Horcell, A. J. 
Howe, 
Hughes, 
Hutchius, 
Ingersoll, 
Klanbey, A. 
Lauduback, D. Jr. 
Lent, N. H. 
Lent. W. H. 
Matthews, H. E. 
McClenachan, C. T, 
McDonough, L. R. 
McKesson, J. 
McJimsey, Eugene, 

Mealey, P. J. 

Meachan, Geo. G. 

Moiee, B. V. 

Montauge, H. W. 

Moon, Geo. G. 

Money, 

O'Brien, F. J. 

Oliver, Richard 

Oliver, J. W. 

Oldershaw, R. 

Olmstead, 

Pinckney, F. H. 

Pomeroy, A. H. 

Putnam, E. T. 

Risley, L. S. 

Robinson, 

Schemerhorn, Chas. A. 

Schemerhorn, L. 

Schemerhorn, W. H. 

Schram, 

Sherman, S. J. 

Simpson, W. 

Smith, A. J. 

Smith, R. B. 

Bteers, A. 

Steers, F. J. 

Simons, A. H. 

Skellern, Geo. "W. 

Stetson, N. 

Stetson, N. Jr. 

Stewart, A. B. 

Stewart, R. K. 

Stone, W. 

St. John, W. 

Tallmadge, 

Tallman, Geo. H 

Tiffany, H. D. 



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'Tiffany, Layman 
Thompson, S. W. 
Thorpe, R. A. 
Trotter, E. A. 
Trotter, F. E. 
Tuffts, W. Fuller 
Turnbull, Geo. R. 
Turner, W. 
Van Loan, B. F. 
Van Benschoten, M. 
Vanderweider, 
"Wheelright, W. G. 
"Williamson, C. 

C. 8. Graffalla, Musical Di- 
rector of the Band. 
David Ghraham, Drum Major. 



EIGHTH COMPANY. 

Oapt. Henry C. Shumway, 
1st Lieut. Otias. B. Bo^tock, 
2nd " Chag. B. Babcock, 
1st Sergt. Jno. W. Spicer, 
2nd " Bam'l W. Sears, 
3rd " Edwd. O. Kettle, 
4th " Henry D. Green, 
bth " Wm. L. M. Burger, 
Commissary, Ex. Sgt. Gilbert 

L. Arrowsmith, 
1st Corp, Gould B. Hedenberg, 
2nd " Chag. E. Mears, 
3rd " Benjamin Loder, Jr. 

PKIVATES. 

Allen, Wm. B. 
Austen, David E. 
Allen, Chas. D. 
Abrams, Jas. C. 
Arms, C. Ernst, 
Baker, John M. 
Barbey, Adolphus H. 
Barsett, Wm. H. 
Bearnes, .Tos. H. 
Beecher, H. O. 
Bredt, Ernest 
Brown, Ed. S. 
Brown, Wm. H. 
Burdett, Geo. F. 
Burkhalter, Jno. H. 
Burkhalter, Stephen Jr. 
Buckley, 

Blake, Clarence A. 
Barry, Robt. P. 
Brownell, S. B. 
Baker, Jas. T. 
Casey, Jas. 8. 
Cozzens, Thos. Mi 
Coles, W. H. Jr. 
Cargill, Frank 
Champion, Chas. P. 
Crockett, John A. 
Davidson, Albert 
Denison, Lyman, Jr. 
Denison, Chas. S. 
Daskin, Jas. W. 
Easton, Alfred H. 
Eager, Peter 
Ellis, W. Irving 
Farrell, Wm. R. 
Field, Robt. M. Jr. 
Field, 8aml. B. 
Flagg, Montague 
Ford, Robt. O. N. 
Foster, S. B. 
Gouge, Edwd. H. 
Grant, Jas. B. 
Gansevoort, Henry S. 
Green, Frank W. 
Gifford.S. R. 



Grant, T. C. 
Grant, F. H. 
Herrick, Eiias .7. 
Hertzel, Geo. W. 
Hilliuan, Jno. 8. 
Howe, Angnstus 
Howell, Wm. P. 
Hurlbut, Wm. H. 
Hubbell, Henrp W. Jr. 
Hull, .Ino. Henry 
Hall, Robt. L. 8. 
HoUister, Henry H. 
Hav, 
Ha'ff, 

Hastin, P. 
Jacobeon, Wm. G. 
Jaudon, Frank 
Johnson, Ebenezer R. 
Jung, Chas. T. 
Keine, John P. 

Keese, .r Lawrence — Accident- 
ly shot dead while in camp. 
Lamb, Joseph 
Leveridge, A. De Witt 
Lewis, Thompson 

Lane, J. Remsen 

Lapsley, Howard 

Levick, 

Macy, Theo. E. 

Marvine, Wra. H. 

Mather, De Witt C. 

Meeks, Albert V. 

Moller, Wm. H. 

Morgan, Jno. W. 

Morrison, Jas. Jr. 

Morrison, Wm. A. 

Mnller, Adrian H. Jr. 

Murfey, Geo. W. 

Murfey, John H. 

Mayer, 8aml. D. 

McMillan, Alex. 

McKee, 

Murray, Wm. 8. 

Mabee, Foster N. 

Murray, Geo. W. 

Mason, Albert 

Moss, Cortland D. 

Moran, Edward 

Mansfield, W. D. 

Neilson, Edwd. N. 

Oley, John H. 

Owen, Wm. H. 

Pomeroy, 

Parisort, Ernest J. 

Parmelpe, Lewis C. 

Phillips, Henry J. 

Price, Chas. W. 

Polhamus, Henry A. 

Pease, Walter A. 

Paterson, W. G. 

Pearce, Chas. E. 

Peat, C. B. 

Peat, F. T. 

Robinson, Jas. E. 

Kollinson, Saml. O. 

Kollinsou, 

Ryder, Alfred V. 

Reeve, Ch. 

Rogers, Edmond P. 

Rushton, R. C. 

Rogers, Philip C. 

Richardson, Geo. R. 

Rankin, 

Spear, P. B. 

Stevenson, 

Smith, Lewis B. 

Bpear, Edwin 

Spencer, Piere, F. 

Smith, E. A. W., Ex. 1st Lieut. 

of Company H, 
Trowbridge. Jos. A. 
Talcott, E. N. Kirk 



Van Rett, Saml. K. 
Williams, Geo. C 
Wilson, Henry S. Jr. 
Wood, Alexander G. 
Willis^, John O. 
Whitehouse, Edwd. M. 
Wethabee, 
Welch, 
Wood, T. H. 
Webber, J. T. 



NISTH COMPANY, ARTILLERY. 

1st Lieu' t, H. A. Oragin, 
2nd '< C. C. White, 
Orderly Sgt., J. H. Macbride, 

2 " H. .T. Fuller, 

3 " Edwin Reeler, Jr. 

4 "Lawr'ce Moore, Jr. 

PRIVATES. 

Andrews, G. D. 

Arthur, H. E. 

Barie, .James 

Baiier, Joshua 

Barrett, 

Barney, N. C. 

Ball, C. J. C. 

Brownirl, Henry 

Brainard, L. W. 

Bramhall, W. L. 

Beirne, James A. 

Bugle, Benedick 

Buch, Theo. H. 

Carman, Richard 

Church, E. D. 

Coan, W.B. 

Concklin, J. R. Jr. 

Concklin, J. K. 

Carey, R. P. 

Coombs, Philip 

Cumming, A. M. 

Day ton, G. E. 

Davis, G. C. 

Davies, Barry 

Dean, W. L. 

Doughty, G. R. 

Dunnel, G. H. 

Derbeu, J. P. Jr. 

Durfee, Fenton 

Eddy, Clin con 

Edgar, 8. P. 

Ellis, Franklin 

Farmer, George 

Fisher, W. N. 

Fitzpatrick, Thomae 

Fordred, 

Franklin, D. R. 

Giber son, S. 

Goodrich, L. O. 

Greaves, E. E. 

Harmstead, R. M. 

Howell, J. R. 

Knaps, E. S. 

King, C. E. 

Law, B.J. 

Lockwood, G. A. 

Lord, J. R. 

Leuezy, Joseph 

Mack, Valentine 

Manning, J. 

Marlor, G. , 

Matthews, James 

Martin, P. H. 

McCrea, J. E. 

McDonald, Alex. 

McLane, Arch'd 

Merchant, A. T. 

Merriman, K. R. 

Miller, B. B. 



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Iq times like the prpsent, when there is not only a dearth of employmPDt, hut a scarcety of the " circu- 
lating medium," it hecomeK every one to regulate their household upon principles of the strictest fcooomy, 
and in raakin;,' their purchases, to obtain the be>t and cheapest commodities. 

It is a maxim in commercial circles that "the cheapest goods are the best " AVebad, fora time, a douht 
of the truth of this statement, but a proof of the Wares vended by Mr. Thomas R. Agnew, at hi.< establish- 
ment, as noted above, fully convinced us of our error. We have made a trial of sevtralof the Goods in which 
he deals, and are enabled to classify them as the i-ery if.<t, whilst in point of pi ice they can not be under-quoted 
in the city. This remark applies to his large stoi-ks of Sugar, Tea, Coffee aud Molasses. Beingan importer, and 
purchasing for cash, Mr. Agnew can, therefore, Fuppiv his customers upon unusually advantageous terms. 
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Loyalty to the Stjrs and Stripes is now the order of the day. Children are the creatures of imitation, and 
hence the streets of this great city are daily perambulated by them in all the gay and attractive uniforms of 
the several Regiments of Volunteers who have gone foith to give Jefferson Davis's legions a specimen of their 
military capacity, their courage and their daring, and to convince them that " the Union Must and Shall be 
Maintained." But although the juvenile would-be soldier has obtained his uniform, he wants something 
more in order to be fully equipped: these are what are termed in military phraseology, "Accoutrements." 
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according to the most approved rifle bore, or latest Enfield pattern. Haversacks, calculated to hold a three 
hours' rations, and knapsacks, furnished in all that the juvenile warrior requires, aie constantly on sale. 
Another necessary appendage is the drum ; by its roll the young forces are gathered in, and by its tap the 
science of marching is acquired. Then, again, the tiny bugle i.s to be had in every style and variety. In a word, 
there is not a single article which the youthful "son of mars" requires to equip him for actual service that 
is not to be had at thin establishment The character of the house is such as to impart confidence that the 
articles are of the best quality, whilst th>* excellent trade facilities of the principals, both at home and 
abroad, ensure that their stock can be vend^d at the lowest cash prices of the day. The house of Messrs. 
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A. DOUGHERTY, 26 Beekman Street. 

" All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." This is a saying no lees ancient than it is truthful. 
The mind as well as the body lequires relaxation ; lonsiquently vain^us means have been devised to effect 
an (bject so desirable. Among the many plans of amusement, is that of Card Playing. In the camp, it is 
the favorite pastime alter the duties of the day have hem lerlbimed. (Jne of the last things which the 
Volunteer attends to before his march is to supply himself with a few pocks of the best playing cardB. He 
knows that they will wile away many an hour which would otherwise be irk.some and tedious. Hence, 
the enquiry ''Where can I get the best and cheapest Cards?" We have several manufacturers in th's country. 
At the head of the business stands IMr. A. DOUGHERTY, 26 Beekman Street, in this city. Being practi- 
cally engaged in the business for a long series of years, his styles are unlimited, and the quality of each such 
as to give universal satisfaction. A comparison of Mr. Dougherty's Cards -with the celebiated pro- 
ductions of De La Hue, of London, -will convince any one that for strength, neatness of design and beau- 
ty of Uoisb, they arc without a compeer, -whilst in the matter of price we believe they are the cheapest 
iu the market. Just now Mr. Dongherty hag produced a new pattern which he calls the " Umon." We 
have examined this class of his Cards, and are enabled to pronoui.ce it superior in every respect. It 
only requires to be seen to be admired, and its excellent quality appreciated. Certain we are that when 
fully known eveiy soldier of our brave army will yearn to have a supply in his knapsack. But Cards 
are favorites in the family circle. Here, too, the Union design must, be a universal favorite. Dealers 
and retailers of Cards should bear this in mind, and lay in a supply, as the stock will sell like "hot cakes." 

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As general Scott is Commander-in-Chief of the United States forces, now in the field against the 
rebels, so .also is B.trker Generalissimo in the Grand Army *ff Ale Venders. From him you can 
obtain the best Ales of the day, all drawn from the wood. A large glass for Scents. Barker is also 
Bole agent for Threlfalla celebrated Knglish Ales. Note the addrees, tiOLDEN ALE VAULTS, No. 2 Tryon 
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®Itc §oU 0t the mnion gn'iug. 

THE SIXTY -NINTH REGIMENT OP THE N. Y. S. M, 



This patriotic and courageoua band of heroes 
merits an early notice. As the reader is awaie, 
it is composed of Irishmen mostly, all of whom 
are adopted citizens. Their commander, Colonel 
Corcoran, is a universal favorite among his men, 
and the popularity of the regiment is attested on 
every occasion when it turns out by the loud and 
universal plaudits with which it is greeted by the 
populace at large. The Sixty-ninth was one of 
the earliest of the New Yoi-k State MiUtia to 
start for the National Capital. Wlienever a,n Ir- 
ishman appears on the field of battle, he is sure 
to give undeniable evidence of undaunted heroism, 
and nothing could exceed the zeal with which he 
throws himself into the conflict. This remark is 
particularly applicable to the Sixty-ninth, from 
the moment they sei out upon the march to Wash- 
ington until their return from Bull Run. 

When the news of the attack on the Sixth Jlas- 
sachusetts Regiment becamj known, the Sixty- 
ninth Regiment announced their readiness for the 
field; and, had the government permitted it, the 
total strength of the corps would have been 2,000 
strong. As it was, the whole force at Bull Run 
was over thirteen hundred rank and file. The de- 
parture of the Sixty-ninth was made the occasion 
of a grand turn-out. The line of march through 
Broadway and the other streets through which 
they passed on the way to the steamer, at the foot 
of Cortlandt street, was one grand ovation — every 
one seemed desirous of marking with unqualified 
approbation such a prompt response to the call 
of the government. The Sixty-ninth formed in 
Great Jones street, the right resting on Broadway. 
Long before the troops made their appearance, 
the neighboring thoroughfares were completely 
choked up with people to catch a glimpse— per- 
haps a last one— of the familiar faces of friends 
and relatives before they should embark. The 
rush for positions in the regiment was tremendous, 
and thousands who had been enrolled were left 
behind, in consequence of the orciers of the Major- 
General that not more than one thousand men, all 
told, should be taken from the city. 

The Phoenix Brigade performed escort duty. 



They numbered about six hundred men. They 
had a brass field-piece, belonging to the engineer 
corps of the regiment, which they continued to 
fire at intervals throughout the line of mareh. A 
large company of firemen, members of 18 Track, 
who volunteered their services to the colonel for 
special police duty, worked the gun, under the di- 
rection of one of Captain Kirkers company of 
Engineers. All along Broadway the surging tide 
of human beings displayed the utmost enthusiasm. 
Wild hurrahs, clapping of hands, and the waving 
of handkerchiefs was to be heard and seen from 
the windows and balconies and the crowded side- 
walks of Broadway. The men of the Sixty-ninth 
received their ovation wtth becoming dignity. 
They saluted all whom they recognized ; but it was 
evident that they felt they were marching on a 
serious errand, and that not a few were never 
again to return. So densely packed was the route 
that the regiment was obliged to march in file. 
Some five hundred men wlio had been left out de- 
termined to follow their favorite regiment as long 
as possible, and accompanied them all the way to 
the boat. It was 5, P. M., April 23, when the 
Sixty-ninth reached pier No. 4, North river, and 
there a scene of the most exciting character took 
place. In every direction people had taken up 
positions in the rigging of vessels ; they covered 
the tops of the pier sheds and houses, and every 
place where a view could be obtained. Here the 
cheering' was vociferous in the extreme. 
' The regiment was sadly disappointed on finding 
that it would not be marched through Baltimore ; 
for it was their darling hope that they would have 
an opportunity of punishing in the most terrible 
manner the bloodthirsty cowards of that city who 
had, on the previous Friday, interrupted the march 
of the Sixth Jlassachusetts Regiment, then on its 
way to Washington. 

What rendered the departure of the Sixty-ninth 
a great popular event was the fact of its colonel 
having been court-martialed for refusing to parade 
his regiment in honor of the Prince of Wales. The 
Irish portion of the people of this country have 
strong prejudices against the royal family of Eng- 



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lanfl. They fancy that to it can be traced no 
small portion of the poUtical grievances which 
prevail in their native land. It forms no part of 
duty to inquire into the validity of such opinions ; 
at the same time, it is nothing more than just- 
ice to Queen Victoria to saj' that no monarch has 
ever occupied the British throne who showed a 
greater desire to promote the best interests of the 
people of Ireland. Bad and tyrannical landlords 
there are, and will be, in that country ; but for 
this the royal family cannot be held accountable. 
Col. Corcoran is one of those genuine Irish spirits 
who adopted heart and soul the memorable social 
aphori.sm uttered by the late Mr. Drummond, 
when Under-Secretary at Dubhn Castle — viz. : 
" Property has its duties as well as its rights." 
He was brougiit up in a part of Ireland— the coun- 
ty of Sligo — where he had good opportunity of 
studying the landlord grievances of his country. 
Having entered the Irish Constabulary, he was 
located in the county of Donegal— a part of the 
country where all his national sympathies on be- 
half of his oppressed countrymen were called 
forth. Col. Corcoran has always been an ardent 
lover of ciril and religious liberty. This circum- 
stance had no small share in inducing him to 
leave Ireland in 1849, and settle down in this city. 
The history of his connection with the Sixty-ninth 
may be briefly told. He rose from the ranks, hav- 
ing joined the regiment as a private in Company 
I, Captain John Judge. His election as colonel 
took place on the 25th of August, 1859. His sub- 
sequent career has fully justified the choice of his 
men, and brought the discipline and drill of his 
command to a state of perfection which hardly a 
militia regiment in the country can lay claim to. 

In the peculiar qualifications essential to a suc- 
cessful military commander Col. Corcoran is am- 
ply endowed. His family— an ancient and re- 
spectable one — have had a taste for the profession 
of arms. His father — Thomas Corcoran, we be- 
lieve — was an officer in the British army, and 
served with much distinction in the West Indies. 
Besides, in early life the colonel was brouglit up 
in an excellent school for calling out all the mili- 
tary genius which he possessed, and developing 
in all its pristine vigor that principle of manly 
courage and noble daring which he displayed on 
the battle-field at Bull Run. 

But while justly proud, as the country must be, 
of Col. Corcoran, as commander of the Sixty- 
ninth, it must not be supposed that his officers and 
men lacked in loyalty and devotion to the United 
States. Ic is true that some one or two of the 
men refused to take the oath of allegiance on be- 
ing mustered into the service of the United States. 
Col. Corcoran set at rest any suspicion of want of 



courage and loyalty on the part of his regiment 
by his letter, dated Georgetown Heights, May 10, 
1861, wherein he states: 

" Once for all, in reply to various intima- 
tions and inquiries, each more or less disparag- 
ingly implying an uncertainty as to the loyal- 
ty and military spirit of the regiment under 
my command, I beg leave to state, and do so 
positively and finally, that the Sixty-ninth Re- 
giment N. Y. S. M., has come on here in 
prompt compliance with the call of the Presi- 
dent of the United States, in defending the na- 
tional sovereignty, property, and flag, and that 
wherever, and whenever the National Gov- 
ernment, established and acting at Washing- 
ton, may order the Sixty-ninth, there and then 
the Sixty-ninth are resolved and sworn, to a 
man, to act. Holding, as they do, that they 
are no longer citizens and soldiers of the State 
of New York, but are unreservedly and heart- 
ily citizens and solders of the United States of 
AmTica, of which President Lincohi is the 
legitimate Executive, and the stars and stripes 
are, the world over, the recognized, historic, 
and inviolable symbol, after this declaration, 
the Sixty-ninth will make no answer to and 
take no notice of any such doubts or imputa- 
tions as those in question, save and except 
what their military obligations in camp or bat- 
tle will enable them to give." 

Now, this was published at a time when the 
Sixty-ninth Regiment were by no means treated as 
they ought to have been by the Commissariat De- 
partment at Washington. Their food was not 
merely deficient in quantity, but was inferior in 
quaUty. This fact was commented upon at the 
time by some of the public journals of the day. 
One paper, of the 20th of May, contains the fol- 
lowing : " During the past week, repeated com- 
plaints, verbal and written, have reached this of- 
fice. In one case, we are told that the gallant 
Sixty-ninth have been expo.sed to privations and 
hardships which the most miserable outcast in the 
wilds of Connaught would not have to endure. 
* * * The pauper wno is quartered in the alms- 
liouse— the criminal "serving his term" in the 
Stats prison, or the vagrant sent to rusticate on 
Blackwell's Island — are fed and clothed sufficient- 
ly 80 as to preserve health and strength. Here 
are men who enlist to fight their country's bat- 
tles, who leave their families and their homss t» 
uphold the Con.stitution and its laws, who are so 
badly treated that we wonder they are fit for any 
kind of military duty. The Sixty-ninth, we are 
told, were frequently compelled to make mother 
earth their bed, and from damps and chills ex- 
posed to the liability of contracting illness which 
would compel them to retire from the service." 
For all this, the Sixty-ninth bore up with undeni- 



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able coarage ; and if hard work was to be per- 
formed, they were sure to be the foremost in its 
performance. Their march from Annapolis to 
Washington was harrassing in the "extreme, and 
when they amved at Georgetown Heights, they 
had only to commence their military labors de 
novo. The erection of their works named Port 
Corcoran, in honor of their colonel, were a won- 
der and a model to nearly every other regiment, 
and pronounced by the highest military authori- 
ties perfection itself. Earnestly and unceasingly 
did they labor in the trenches, whilst they had 
more than full share of picket duty and daily 
drills. The word fear was wiped out of their vo- 
cabulary, and to murmur or repine at all the tasks 
allotted them was considered by the humblest pri- 
vate derogatory to the character of the true sol- 
dier. 

When Gen. Scott determined upon the advance 
towards Manassas Junction, it was assigned to 
the Sixty-ninth that it should form the " advance 
guard" — a strong proof of the superior excellence 
of both colonel, officers and men. Nor was the 
trust misplaced. Nobly did they lead the federal 
army on to that bloody field at Bull Ran, where, 
after a long and wearied march through a broiling 
sun and bad aud dusty roads, and without food or 
sustenance of almost any kind, they opened t"he 
battle on the Slst of July. Of the character of 



the achievements of the Sixty-ninth on that mem- 
orable day, this is not the place to dilate. It will 
be found in the regular historical part of these 
volumes. Suffice it to say, that every charge was 
made in gallant style, and although it was made 
with fearful loss, it cut the enemy to pieces. 

Notwithstanding all the temptations to which 
the Sixty-ninth was exposed, there was a perfect 
freedom from anything like excess. The mea, 
one and all, attended to the spiritual advice of the 
reverend chaplain, Pather Mooney, who was en- 
deared to every member of the regiment. He was 
in truth, the soldiers' friend, and contributed in no 
small degree to nerve the men for the great con- 
flict which took place. 

While every man who loves the country mast 
deplore the heavy loss which this gallant bind of 
hero«i sustained, it is with pride that they can 
look back upon the daring deeds of Corcoran, the 
lamented Haggerty, and the indomitable courage 
of Meagher. Their names and every other, officer 
and man, of the regiment, will be treasured up for 
generations yet unborn, and a country's gratitude 
speak trumpet-tongued in praise of their patriot- 
ism and miUtary efficiency. Let the reader now 
turn to the muster-roll of the Sixty-ninth, contem- 
plate its bloody record, and earnestly pray that the 
great disposer of all events may, in his infinite 
wisdom, restore peace and harmony to the land. 



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Pu^t^t: goU 0f m .f ixttj-ttitttlt if(jiwcut, ^. f . ^, p. 



REGIMENTAL STAFF. 

Uolonel Michael Corcoran.* 

Lt. Colonel Robert Nugent. 

Major Alderman James Basiey.f 

Adjutant John McKeon. 

Chaplain Rev. Thomas Mooney. 

Engineer Jam«s B. Kirker. 

Surgeon ..Dr Kiernan 

Q.uartsrmaster James B. Tnlly. 

Paymaster Matthew Kehol. 



* Wounded at Bull Run, and taken prisoner. 

t This officer did not accompany the regi- 
ment to the seat of war, and was not engaged 
in any action with the enemy. 



NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF. 

Sergeant Major Arthur Tracey 

(Wounded in actian.) 

Quartermaster-Sergeant John Bell 

Ordinance Sergeant F. Paee 

First Color-Bearer John Murphy 

(Wounded and prisoner at Richmond.) 

Second Color-Bearer James Reilly 

(Deserted and fled from the enemy.) 

Right General Guide Thomas Sweeny 

Left General Guide Robert Eagan 

C.. Patrick O'Hearn 
Corporals of Color Guard < J. W. Herbert 

( .Tohn OanoU 

Hospital Steward John Murray 

Drum Major Maurice Murphy 

Principal Musician Thomas Monaghan 



COMPANY A. 

Captain, John Higgerty. 
1st Lieut., Theo. Kelly. 
2d •' Daniel Strane. 
3d " Daniel Sullivan. 
IstSergt., And'w Birmingham. 
2d " Patrick Gunny. 
3d " Michael Brennan. 
4th " John Fahy 
5th " James Kilcher. 
1st Corp'l, .Tohn Lynch. 
2d " Patrick Walsh. 
3d " Thomas Sullivan. 
4th " Richard Murray. 
5th " Patrick tJahill. 
1st Drummer, M. E. Hill. 
2d " Richard Bell. 



Angle, Thomas G. 
Byrne, William 
Kracken, .Tames 
Buody, Philip 
Burke, Redmond 
Boylan, Thomas 
Bowen, Chas. 
Brennan, J. W. 
Brown, Thomas 
Brodie, Patrick 
Carr, James 
Cleary, William 
Carolin, Alexander 
ClafTery, Michael 
Crosby, Charles 
Crowly. Daniel 
Carrol, James 
Cummings, Joseph 
Olancey, Miles C. 
Corcoran, Michael 
Cahil, D. J. 
Cannery, W. H. 
Daly, John 
Draddy, Daniel 
Downey, John 



Dilks, Joseph C. 
Doheny, John C. 
Dooley, Patiick 
Dunn, Peter 
Dunn, John 
Duffy, Hugh 
Dunn, Joseph 
Dunnigan, Michael 
Duffy, Owen J. 
Duncan, William 
Egan, Thomas 
Faniell, Thomas F. 
Fagan, Matthew 
Finigan, Patrick 
Fog.arty, John 
Ford, George 
Fitzgerald, Michael 
Findley, John 
Flynn, Peter 
Fencer, Thomas 
Gately, Thomas 
Galligher, Neil 
Gaffney, John 
Gilder, Francis 
Groves, Robert 
Gaynor, Patrick 
Gerity, William 
Hanlon, Edward 
Henney, Robert 
Hetherington, John 
Hughes, John 
Kelly, Michael 
Kelly, Richard A. 
Kelly, Richard C. 
Kelly, Robert 
Kelly, William 
Kennedy, Patrick J. 
Kpilan, Thomas 
Kiernan, James 
King, John 
-Lilly, Patrick 
Looney, John J. 
Mackin, James 
Morgan, Martin 
McCain, John 



McDermot, Luke 
McDonough, John 
McGiving, Michael 
McNaery, Alexander 
Mullen, John 
Mulvihill, Thomas 
McLaughlin, Patrick 
Murphy, Huirh 
McSweeny, Miles 
Montgomery, Thomas 
Myers, Daniel 
Monaghan, Martin 
McTague, Hugh 
Murphy, William 
Murphy, Maurice 
Mulhoony, John 
Norris, Thomas D. 
Newcombe, James 
O'Farrell, Patrick 
O'Donnel, Michel 
O'Callaghan, William 
O'Hara, Joseph 
O'Neile, Patrick 
O'Shanghnessy, William 
Peters, Jeremiah 
Page, Robert 
Robinson, James 
Reynolds, Bernard 
Reynolds, John 
Reed, Michael H. 
Rooney, James 
Rogers, James P. 
Ryan, .John 
Saun, Edward F. 
Sheldrick, Thomas 
Shephard, William 
Shea, John 
Star, Patrick 
Sullivan John 



Capt. J. H. Haggerty. 
Chafles Crossley, ^ 
John Dunn, and \ Privates, 
Patrick Lilley, ) 



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WOUNDED. 

Sergeant .Tames. 

Kilcher, Corporal 

Patrick Cahill, 1 

William Duncan, 

Thomas 'E!;an, 

William Finnigan, Vprjyates. 

Patrick Flanniean, j 

Richard A. Kelly, 

Rich dC. Kelly, and | 

Joseph O'Hara, J 

The latter was Ifft on tne 
field at Bull Run tor dead, but 
has since recovered. 



Thomas Brown. 
John Gafiney.* 
Thomas Montgomary. 
John Mulrooney. 
Jeremiah Peters.* 
Bernard Reynolds.* 
Owea J. Duffy. 

* These men were also se- 
verely wounded la action. 



COMPANY B. 

Commandant, Wm. M. Giles. 
1st I-.ieut., Thomas Leddy. 
2d Lieut, Laurence Cahill, 
Ist Sergt , M. P. Bowman. 
2d " Richard Dunn. 
3d " George Dooavan. 
4th " Thomas Moore. 
bth " Patrick Nevins. 
1st Corp'l, Thom.as Kiernan. 
8d " Wm. Pannington. 
3(1 " Philip A. McMahon, 
4th " Patrick Minegnole. 
IstMusic'n, Bern'd McFadden 
2d " Thos. McFadden. 

PRIVATES. 

Bntler, George 
Beine, Michael 
Barret, Fatriclc 
Boyle, Thomas 
Brady, John 
Banan, James 
Bergen, Michael 
Berne, Matthew 
Brooks, James 
Brady, Peter 
Brown, Philip 
Caffery, William 
Canavan, Charles 
Coffe, John 
Coleman, John. 
Cline, Michael 
Cline, Thomas 
Collins, Michael 
Conavan, Andrew 
Cronin, Timothy 
Cnllin, John 
Dillon, John P. 
Dillon, Thomas 
Donelley, William 
Donelley, Francis 
Donelley, Martin 
Dougherty, William 
Doyle, Patrick 
Dunn, Patrick 
Dnyer, Robert 
Flagherty, Bimon 



Flynn, Patrick 
Gallagher, Bernard 
Gallagher, John 
Gibbons, Michael 
Gleason, William 
Glenn, William 
Hagan, Francis 
Hart, John 
Haslip, George 
Joice, William 
Kelly, Arthur 
Kelly, Edward 
Kelly, James 
Lally, John 
Lanargan, John 
Leddy. John 
Leonard, James 
McCabe, Alexander 
McCaffery, Thomas 
McCormick, Peter 
McGuire, Laurence 
McGuiness, James 
McGuik, James 
McGuik, Andrew 
McGovern, Thomas 
McKenna, Patiick 
McHugh, John 
McManus, Thomas 
MeManus, Hugh 
McManus, Laurence 
McNeill, John T. 
McLaughlin, John 
McKnight, Daniel 
McTeague, John 
Meadows, Richard 
Meyers, William 
Moore, William 
Maddin, Patrick, .Tr. 
Manley, Patrick 
Moore, William, 1st 
Moore, William, 2d 
Martin, Thomas 
Martin, Thomas G. 
Martin, Patrick 
MuUin, Christopher 
Murphy, Peter 
Murphy, Joseph 
Neeper, Thomas F. 
O'Brien, Dennis 
O'Connor, Patrick 
O'Keefe, Michael 
O'Shea, Michael. 
Quin, Michael 
Keilly. Patrick 
Reilly, Phillip 
Reynolds, Michael 
Roath, Oswald 
Rogers, William 
Scott, John 
Hcanlon. Timothy 
Shaw, George 
Shuter, Richard 
Smith, James 
Bmith, Owen 
Sullivan, Dennis 
Sullivan, Edward 
Sullivan, William F. 
Thornton, John 
Walsh, William 
Watson, Kiernan 



Doyle, Luke 
O'Donnel, Patrick 
Shorten, Denis 
Sheridan, Daniel 



Cnllen, .Tohn 
Reilly, Patrick 

FRISONBBS AT BICUMOND. 

Kier, John 
Nugent, Jobn 
Joyce, William 
McGuiness, James 
McNeill, John T. 
McTague, John 
Murphy, Peter 

MIBSIHG, SUPPOSED TO BE KILLED. 

Moore, William 
Scott, John 



COMPANT C. 



Captain, 
1st Lieut 
2nd " 
3rd " 
let Sergt. 
2nd " 
3rd " 
4th " 
6th " 
1st Corp' 
2nd 
3rd 
4th 



James Cavannagh. 
,, James J. Smith. 

Michael O'Keiff. 

Jasper M. Whitty. 
, Michael O'Connor. 

Patrick Keatinge. 

William Allen. 

Pierce Mc Henry. 

Carthage Lyons. 
1, Timothy Carr. 

Patrick Price. 

Michael Fitzgerald. 

Lysird. 



WOUNDID. 

Kiernan, T. (Corporal.) 
Shuter, Richard (Corporal.) 



MUSICIANS. 

1st, George Decker. 
2nd, John Degraw. 
3rd, James Brenan. 

PRIVATES. 

Armstrong, Phoenix 
Brady, Matthew 
Brown, Michael 
Burnes, James A. 
Burnes, William 
Callaghan, Cornelius 
Callaghan, Michael 
Callan, Thomas 
Comber, Ganeit 
Concklin, James 
Connell, Philip 
Carley, John 
Coogan, John 
Corcoran, Andrew 
Cuddy, James 
Cummins, Timothy W. 
Curly, Peter 
Daly, John 
Dann, Bryan 
Davis, Thomas 
Dolan, Thomas 
Davauny, Owen 
Donnelly, Patrick 
Donnovan, Cornelius 
Donnovan, Daniel 
Doran, Valentine 
Duffy, Thomas 
Egan, John 
Egan, Michael 
Fagan, Christopher 
Fagan, John 
Farmer, John 
Fitzgerald, Patrick— 1st 
Fitzgerald, Patrick— 2nd 
Fohey, Patrick 
Fonest.al, William 
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Galiven, John 
Hattigan, Michael 
Maramell, Ppter 
H-^aly, Richard H. 
Hpklen, Micliael 
Hities, Joiie< 
HifTgios, Michael 
Holly, Edward 
Hodgins, George 
Hiuly, Michael 
Jacobs, Benjamin 
Johnston, Edward 
Johnston, Josita 
Keelt, John 
Kennedy, Daniel 
Lacy, Thomas 
Leahy, James 
Leahy, William 
Limrahan, Patrick 
Lons, Michael J. 
McDonald, Thomas 
McGrorath, Edward 
McGuinne?s, Sylvester 
McHugh, J.hn 
McLaughlin, William 
McLarkey, Patrick 
McMahon, Arthur 
McManns, .lonn 
McQ,uade, Thomas 
McNamara, Martin 
Moran, Pntrick H. 
Moore, William 
Murphy, M ichael H. 
Murphy, Mentha* 
Muneny, iJaniel 
Munay, James 
O'Donnel, James 
O'Niell, Gregory 
O'Reilly, Thomas 
Palmer, Frederick 
Kacey, Robert H. 
Regan, James 
Reilly, Bernard 
Reilly, Charles 
Ryan, John — No. 1. 
Ryan, John — No. 2. 
Scott, Frank P. 
Shannon, Philip 
Shaw, Robert 
Spelman, Jumea 
Stark, Thomas 
Sullivan, Ueonis 
Sullivan, Michael 
Sullivan, Patrick 
Sweeny, Michael 
Troy, William 
Welsh, David 
Welsh, Lawrence 
Williams, Edward 
Woods, John 
Wynne, James 

KILLED. 

Hugh Reynold". 

■WOUNDED. 

Timothy Carr, at Bull Ran, 
and not .since heard of. 

MISSING. 

Thomas F. Kenny, 
Patrick Blal<e, 
Arthur Kelly, 
P.atrick Loean, 
Nelhy William, 
Michael Kerrigan. 

DESERTKD, MAT 15. 

John Brady, 
Thomas Carr. 



COMPANY D* 

Captain, Thos. Clarke. 
1st Lieut., Thomas Fay. 
2d " Richard Dalton. 
3d " Martin Boyle. 
IstSefgt., Michael Mairiiire. 
2d " Patrick Goodman. 
Sd " John Murphy 
4lh " Chas. Ghegan. 
1st Corpl., John O'Brien. 
■2d " John Jackson. 
3d " John O'Brien. 
•' Martin Ryan. 
Drummer, Michael Corcoran. 

PRIVATBe. 

Ahem, Michael 
Brown, John 
Hrackly, Edward J. 
Bowes. John 
Kamon, (Jhas. 
Buck, Stephen 
Brady. Patrick 
Oolling, James 
Canoll, Henry 
Cavannagh, Wm. 
Cox, John 
CuUin, Felix 
Cummings, John 
Cas.a, William 
tJolgan, Matthew 
Campbell, John 
Chambers, Henry 
(Julian, Edward 
Callanan, Patrick 
Callan:tn, Thomas 
Diiiiellan, Patrick 
Darcv, Thomas 
Daly." Peter t". 
Davis, Henry W. 
Dona, Thomas 
Dngan, Jo.-eph 
Dunigan. Michael 
Oagen, Patrick 
English. Patrick 
Ewin, Owen 
Foley, George 
Fisher, Hugh C. 
Finhaiit, Nelson 
VitzimmoMs, Richard 
Green, John 
Gaynor, Thomas 
Grant, Donald 
Gardiner, Robert 
Galrin, John 
Hammond, Hobert 
Heaney, .lames 
Heaney, Francis 
Hayes, John, Jr. 
Hughes, John, Sen. 
Hanley, Michael 
Kerley, James 
King, Edward 
Manning. Wm. 
Mitchell, Thos. 
Moloney, Michael 
Mona.fhan, Denis 
Mooney, Philip .1. 
Morrisey, Edward 
Murray, Terence 
Mulligan, .lames 
JNtaher, William 
McCaiinon, Francis 
Murphy, Daniel 
Murphy, John 
IMurphy, Michael 

■* Extracted from the Pay- 
master's Roll — MO other source 
of information being available. 



Murphy, Michael C. 
McCabe, Bernard 
Mc("!anlv, Thomas 
McOlusky, Gpo. 
McDennott, Patrick 
McDonald, Patrick 
JIcGill, James 
McGrath, Mi.-hael 
McGuin, James 
McKenna, -lohn 
McManus, Bsrnard 
McShawe, John 
O'Brien, Thomas 
O'Daly, Edmund J. 
O'Keefe, Daniel 
O'Lorn, Huirh F. 
O Neil, Michael 
O'Rourke, Patrick 
Oaree, Bernard 
Punch, P.atrick J. 
Quirk, Thomas 
Quinn, Tlmmas 
Redman, Michael W. 
Read^, James 
Reynolds, Thomas 
Reardon, Timothy 
Shiel, Lawrence 
Shea, .Jeremiah 
Shanley, Thomas 
She'- ban, Timothy 
Slevin, Thomas 
Sullivan, .lohn 
Sullivan, Miohael 
Trainor. Michael 
W^alsh, John 
Walsh, Michael 
Wimbs, Thomas 
White, John 



COMPANY E. 

Captain, Patrick Kelly. 

IstLieul , John Bagley. 

2d " W"m G. Hart. 

3d " Wm. S. McManns. 

iKtSergt, Andrew Reed. 

2d •* John McDnnagh. 

3rd " James Doyle. 

4th " Michael Duane. 

5th " Thos. Sweeney fde- 
tailed as Right 
General Guide) 

let Corp'l, Robert McMahon, 

2d " Chas. Braj'ton. 

3rd " James Coyle (left 
camp at Georgetown on 
furlough pre-^ious to being 
sworn in, and did not re- 
turn). 

4tb '« John Ward. 

5th " .Tohn Fallon. 

1st Drummer, .Tohn Hanman. 

2d " PatricK Coyle. 

FKIVATES. 

Abraham, George 
Ah' rn, Cornelius 
Burns, Maurice 
Boyle, John 
Burke, Walter 
Bolton, G. A. 
Brawley, .1. N. 
Basket, John 
Burke. Michael 
Bird, P. A 
Conroy, Thomas 
Carey, John 
Cummings, Christopher 



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Clark, Edward 
Callahan, James 
Crystol, Robert 
Ourry, Hngli 
Cunningham. James 
OuUene, Patrick 
Curran, Peter 
Crosby, Michael 
Connolly, Thomas 
Doheney, Michael 
Doheney, Timothy 
Doley, James 
Ualton, William 
Downing, John 
Dunnigan, Wm. 
Daly, Bernard 
Dalton, John 
Dugan, John 
Fitzgerald, John 
Fleming, James 
Fleming, Edward 
Fromer, George 
Finnegan, Theodore 
Folk, Daniel W. 
Flanigan, John 
Fitzgerald, Chas. 
Fitchett, K H. 
Fallon, Michael 
Fitzharris. Edward 
Flood, Michael 
Gulan, Chas. 
Gray, Dan'l J. 
Grehey, Patrick 
Hoskins, Chas. 
Hughes, Thos. 
Hughes, J as. ' 
Hurley, John 
Hogaa, Michael 
Halpin, Jas. 
Hacliett, John 
Indecott, Isaac 
Johnson, Eobi. 
Kating, Michael 
Kennedy, George 
Kran, Michael 
Kingsby, David 
King, Timothy 
King, Thomas 
Kell, Joseph 

KarroU, John (detailed as one 
of the Color Guard). 

Kett, Michael 
Kearney, Francis 

Lowery, Joseph 

McNamara, Henry 

McKenna, James 

McGrane, Patrick 

McGrath, Michael 

McGrath, Patrick 

McGrath, Francis 

McGovern, Terence 

McCarthy, Felix 

McCabe, Patrick 

McCabe, Joseph 

McKenna, Jolin 

McVea, John 

Murray, Matthew 

Murther, James 

Mullavill, John 

Martin, Thos. 

Murphy, .los. 

Murphy, .Tohu 

Murray. Michael 

Nixon, Peter 

Nolan, Lawrence 

Nolan, Geo 

Nolan, Thos. 

O'Connor, Jas. 

O'Reilly, Cornelius 

O'Brien, Michael 

Powers, Wm. 

Peetsche, Henry 



Pnrcell, Jas. 
Potterton, Jas. 
Quinn, Bernard 
(4,uinn, .Tas. 
Ryan, Jas. De Iiacy 
Ryan, Jas. — No 1 
Ryan, Jas.— No 2 
Ryan, Michael T 
Rierdon, Daniel 
Roach, John 
Sayers, Walter 
Sinmott, Thos. 
Simcox, David 
Sweeney. Thomas 
Shields, Edward 
Sothern, J. S. 
Sadlier, Martin 
Sheridan. Bryan 
Sheeran, Joseph 
Tully, Farrell 
Tully, Hugh 
Ward, Henry 
Ward, Joseph 
Wnite, Archibald 
Walsh, Joseph 
Young, John 



COMPANY T. 

Captain, John Breslin. 
1st Lieut., Patrick Duffy. 
2d " Michael Breslin. 
3d " John H. Nugent. 
IstSergt., Michael Brown. 
2d " Daniel Taggert. 
3d " Charles Glynn. 
4th " Nicholas Judse. 
5th " David Stephens. 
1st Corpl., Nicholas AValsh. 
2d " James Calhoun. 
3ii " John Fleming. 
4th " John McGill. 
5th " Edward Mc Garry. 
1st Musician, Phelim Devitt. 
2d " James Taggert. 

PRIVATES. 

Breslin, Patrick 
Brady, Bernard 
Bnrns, Henry 
Butler, .John 
Brady, J. Hugh 
Cowan, Nicholas 
Casey, Patrick 
Corcoran, Peter 
Carragher. Owen 
Coggins, Michael 
C.asey, John 
Cain, Michael 
Catles, James 
Carr, Thomas 
Cunningham, John 
Darly, Michael 
Darly, William 
Daily, Wm. 
Dunan, Michael 
Donnelly, Patrick 
Delaney, Peter 
Donahue. Daniel 
Draddy, Michael 
Davie, i)aniel 
Dunn, Michael 
Dunn, Patrick 
Dalton, Edward 
Donahue, Alexander 
Donahue, Owen 
Dogheriy, Matthew 
EUingworth, Samuel 



Eagen, Robert 
Farrell, Joseph 
Fallon, John 
Fisher, John 
Flanigan, Timothy 
Foy, William 
Froure, Michael 
Gallagher, Neil 
Gibney, P'trick 
Goldriik, Patrick 
Howwrd, Cornelius 
Howard, Micliael 
Hogan, josepli 
Hughes, Francis 
Harden, John 
Higgiiis, Chas. 
Hawkins, Huerh 
Hughes. Patrick 
Horan, Patrick 
Hilley, Owen 
Healey, Thomas 
Jordan, F. Thomas 
Kelly, .John 
Keegan, Bernard 
Keirnan, Patrick 
Kenny, Wm — 1st. 
Kenny, Wm — 2d. 
Laffan, Robert 
Lyons, Joseph 
Lyons, Thomas 
McAiilitr, .tamos 
McAulitr, Patrick 
McAiiliff. Francis 
McCabe, Patrick 
McDonald, Jam"s 
McKiernan, .lohn 
McKcon, Wm. 
McKim, Patrick 
McNulty, James 
McQuade. Thomas 
Mackey, C. John 
Maher, Patrick 
INIarlo, James 
Moiiarty. John 
Morgan, John 
Murphy, Francis 
Murphy, John 
Murphv, Michael — 1st. 
Murphy, Mich.ael — 2d. 
Murry, Francis 
Murry, Timothy 
Mnrtagh, Bernard 
Nevans, Michael 
Nolan, Bernard 
O'Brien, Timothy 
O'Hara, Michael 
O'Neill, Wm. 
O'Keefe, Michael 
O'Kourke, Michuel 
Oatis, Patrick 
(Oliver, Patrick 
Parker. S. John 
Phife, James 
Pidgeon, Christopher 
Quin, Michael 
Ciuiun, Timothy 
Reardon. Jerernitih 
Reilly, Thomas 
Rudiiru, Robert 
Sullivan, Michael 
Seagriff, Lawrence 
Snee, Patrick 
Silvey, Joseph 
Toland, Michael 
Tracy, Peter 
Teiiny, Michael 
Walsh, Edward 
Wooley, Henry 

KILLED. 

Brady, Patrick 



CHRONICLES OP THE REBELLION OF 1861 



21 



■WOPHDBD. 

Capt. John Breslin (slightly). 

Daily, Michael 

Hogan, Joseph (slightly.) 

Kenny, Win — 2d. 

Nolan, Bernard 

INIctiuade, Tdos. 'accid<»n tally, 
while en route from Washing- 
ton to New York.) 

PRISONERS. 

Dalton, Edward 

Dooahne, Owen 

Kane, James (wounded.) 

Mulany, James (wounded.) 

McNulty, James 

O'Mally, Dominick (wounded.) 

DISCHARGED FOR DISABILITT. 

Kennedy, Edward 
O'Hara, Piiilip 
O'Rain, Hugh 



COMPANY G. 

Liient. Com., Wm. Butler.* 
l8t Lieut., Henry J. McAlahon. 
2d " Matttiew Murphy. 
l8t Sergt, James McManus. 
2d " Charles McG-uire. 
3d " James iVIcCream. 
4th " John McOream. 
5th " Richard G-allagher. 
1st Corpl., Edward Q,uinn. 
2d " John Clare. 
3d " Michael Brennan. 
4th " Henry P. McGill. 
5th " Midi. Flannagan. 
Is-t Musician, Thos. Murphy. 
2d " .James Coaly. 

3d " Greorge Phipps. 

4th " S. Henry. 

PRIVATES. 

Bannon, Thomas 
Brannagan, Thomas 
Bernele, Tlioraas 
Barrett, James 
Clenery, Robert 
Cain, James 
Crane, Henry 
Cro 'in, Curuelius 
Cabby, Dennis 
Cassidy, Daniel 
Cronin, .leremiah 
Cornel, ^Stephen 
Campbell, Charles 
Core, Thomas 
Curley, James 
Calhoun, William 
Dietich, Valentine 
Donoho, Patrick 
Donnelly, James 
Dunbar, Thomas 
Doby, Philip 
Fenion, John A. 

♦Captain Felix Duffy com- 
manded Co. G. until tlie 17th 
of May, when he resigned, at 
Georgetown. First Lieuten- 
ant Wm. Butler was ordered to 
take command of Co. G on the 
17th of May, and was its com- 
mandant during its term of 
service. 



Flemming, Thomas 
Flanlgan, .Tames 
Flynn, Owen 
Flynn, Patrick 
Fox, John 
Gafney, Patrick 
Gallagher, George 
Gallagher. James 
Geehan, Michael 
Gill, Matthew 
Genan. Michael 
Godfrey, William 
Griffin, Patrick 
Guy. William 
Hinton, Johnston 
Higeins. Henry 
Hobin, Joseph 
Hanlon, James 
Harrington, Timothy 
Hara, Thomas 
Haley, Martin 
Hogan, Thomas 
Holland, Nicholas 
Howard. .John 
Jones, David 
Kennedy, John 
Lavelle, Hugh 
Leahey, Jeremiah 
Lennon, William 
Little, John 
Lynes, Maurice 
Lynes, ISIichael 
Loftus, Pi?ter 
Maloney, Patrick 
Marley, Michael 
Martin, James 
Mahoney. Maurice 
Martin, Bernard 
Margrand, Patrick 
Meagher, Stephen 
Meehan, David 
Moon, Terrance 
Moran, John 
Middleton, William 
McCarthy, Dauiel 
McCarthy, Patrick B. 
McCarthy, John 
McElhoney, Patrick 
McCuUough, James 
McConnell, Philip 
McDonald, Martin 
McDonald, Daniel 
McGill, Patrick 
McDonagh, Patrick 
McGurn, John 
McGuinness 
McHugh, William P. 
McWiekle, Thomas 
IMcElroy, Arthur 
Murphy, James 
Murray, Patrick J. 
Mulvey, John 
MuUins, Thomas 
Mulvey, Thomas 
Neville, Dennis 
O'Brien, Edward 
O'Brien, James 
O'Brien, .John 
O'Brien, Francis 
O'Neill, James 
O'Sullivan, Lawrence 
O'Brien, Thomas 
Powers, Francis 
Q,uinn, George 
Scanlan, .Tames 
Shea, John 
Sullivan, Maurice 
Sullivan, Dennis 
Trainor, Francis 
TuUersy, Dennis 
Touhey, James 
Vuughan, John 



Wheeling, Thomas 
Wallace, Richard 
Walsh, Michael 
Whelan, ^latthew 



Flynn, P. H. 

Higgins, Anthony 

Flemming, Thomas (accident- 
ally, on the railroad coming 
toward Philadelphia). 

WOUNDED. 

Lient. Butler, slightly, in the 

shoulder. 
Michael Brennan, 3d Corporal 
James Cnrley 
James Gallagher. 
John McCream, 4th Sergeant. 
James Hanlon. 
Michael Holland. 
McGill. 
McNichol. 
Hubey. 
Richard. 

Thomas M. Resby. 
Kichard Wallace. 



Stephen Connor. 
John Vaughan (died in hos- 
pital). 
Michael Brennan, wounded. 
Donnelly. 
Thomas Dunbar. 

DESERTED. 

Sergt. Philip McUonnell. 
Corporal Thomas Punk. 
Slempecker Henry, musician. 
P. R. J. Murray and John 
McGuire, privates. 



COMPANY H. 

Captain, James Kelly. 

1st Lieut., William Butler, de- 
tailed to the command oi Co. 
G. 

2d Lieut., J. Gancon, a prison- 
er. 

3d Lieut., J. Lowery. 

1st bergt., Robert Callaghan. 

2d '* Michael Lowery. 

3d " Patrick Mahon. 

4th " James Poley. 

1st Corpl., Terence Scanlan. 

2d " Cornelius O'Keefe. 

3d " John iSIcManus. 

4th " Daniel Hogan. 

5th " James Dolan. 

Drummer, William William. 

PRIVATES. 

Adams, William 
Bulbert, John 
Burns, Rictiard 
Bulger, John 
Berry, Thomas 
Brown, Thomas 
Bulger, Peter 
Burke, Michael 
Bunnan, John 

* Extracted from the Pay- 
master's Roll — no other source 
ot information being available. 



22 



CHRONICLES OP THE REBELLION OP 1861, 



Unrpy, Charles 
Biady, Terence 
Brennan, Luke 
Callaghan, Patrick 
Ourren, Jlirtin 
(Joonan, James 
Oronan, John 
Coonan, John 
Collins, Jeremiah 
Conroy, Thomas 
Corliss, Paul 
Callaghan, Michael 
Carrol, G-eorge 
Cunningham. Patrick 
Cavannagh, Patrick 
Cavannfgh. Peter 
Campbell, Henry 
Campbell Samuel 
Carney, Patrick 
Crossin, Autliority 
Doran, John 
l>uffy, Patrick E. 
Egan, David 
Foley, Michael 
Flannelly, Michael 
Fagan, William 
Fitzgerald, Cornelius 
Gibney, Thomas 
Grant, George 
Gegety, Matthew 
Gilroy, Peter 
Gorman, Michael 
Howe, V/illiam G. 
Higgin-, Thomas 
Hayes, Michael 
Hammell, Owen 
Jennings, Thomas 
Kelly, Patrick 
Kelly, Frederick 
King, Patrick 
Keenan. Matthew 
JLiinaghan, Matthew 
McCarthy, Charles 
Maher, Patrick 
Morris, John 
Marra, Thos. 
Markey, John 
Mulloy, Matthew 
McCormick, M. J. 
Marriou, James 
McManus, I'aniel 
McGuire, Michael 
McGahan. James 
McUann, John 
McCann. Peter 
McDonald, Matthew 
Madden, James 
McMahoii, Michael 
McGrath, Joseph 
McCarthy, Thomas 
McManui", John 
Madden, Denis 
Manen, Thomas 
Muney, Edward 
Mitchell, Denuis 
McEvoy, Bernard 
JMnlrooney, Richard 
Muriey, Francis 
Nelson, Thomas 
Nolan, Michael 
O'Brien, John 
O'Brien, benis J. 
O'Connor, Daniel 
O'Sullivan, John 
O'SuUivan, Michael 
Parker, Koheri 
Perkins, Edward 
Reily, Charles 
Ryan, Daniel J. 
Reily, Patrick 
Reynolds, James 
Klce, Henry 



Ryan, John 
Rearrton, Charles 
Shirlock, Augustus 
Shew, H. Lewis 
Tierny, Thomas 
Topey, Patrick 
Tehan, John 
William, David 
Wynne, Patrick R. 
White, Nicholas 



COMPANY I. 

1st Lieut. Commanding, John 

Coonan. 
2d Lieut., Thomas M'Canton. 
3d " William Fogarty. 
1st Sergt., Thomas Scnnlon. 
2d " John Joseph Foster. 
Sd " Patrick Morris. 
4th " John Gleeson. 
5th " Meagher."" 
1st Corp'l, Thos. Donoughue. 
2d " James Watson. 
3d '• Jeremiah Preston. 
4th " James McGowan. 
6th " Patrick O'Connor. 
Dbummer, Richard Conroy. 



Barney, Mat'hew 
Bates, Hugti 
Bagley, Peter 
Bartley, William 
Bergen, Thomas 
Bell, Christopher 
Bird, Laurence 
Bowes, John 
Brett, Denis 
Brien, Michael J. 
Britten, Edward 
Brown, John 
Broth well, John 
Byrne, Edward 
Cahill, Thomas 
Callaghan, Bartholemew 
Callaghan, .Tames, 1st 
Callahan. James, 2d 
Canton, .Joseph 
Carley, Patrick 
deary, Michael 
Connor, Philip 
Cosgrove, Patrick 
Coats, Michael 
Comfort, Matthew 
Connor, .lames 
Coss, Kiernau 
Croker, W.aller 
Crogan, Thomas 
Curry, Charles 
Daly, John 
Daly, Matthew 
Daly Michael 
Delany, William 
Divine, Richard 
Divine, Alexander 
Divine, Thomas 
Dempsey, Peier .T. 
Disney, George M. 
Doyie, Edward 
Duggan, Cornelius 
Dnmphey, Patrick 

* This man was not heard of 
after the encounter with the 
enemy on the I'hursd.-iy pre- 
vious to the b-ittle at Bull Kun, 
and is supposed to have de- 
serted. 



Dolan, Thomas 
Donnelly, John 
Eagan, Daniel 
Emmett, John 
Fitzgerald, Cornelius 
Folis, Edward 
FuUham, Michael 
Franklin, James 
Gallagher, Cliristopher 
Geary, .Teremiah 
Giddings, John 
Gillan, Michael 
Gillespie, Hugh 
Haffey, Patrick 
Hale, Bernard 
Hagem, John 
Hurley, John 
Irwin, James 
Jackson, losepli 
Jacques, John 
Kelly, Peter 
King, Charles 
Kinnealy, William 
Lalor, John P. 
Lalor, Jerem'ah 
Leonard, Edward 
Lovett, ijhristopher 
Lynch, John 
Lynch, P.atrick 
Lynch, Richard 
Madden, James 
Maddigan. Thomas 
McCarty, Daniel 
McGee, Daniel 
McGee, Richard 
McGowan, John 
McCan, John 
McQrane, Francia 
McGrane, ISTichael 
McGrane, Patrick 
McMahon, John W. 
McGirk, Andrew 
Molloy, George 
Mullany, John 
Mulligan, Michael ^ 
Murphy, Daniel 
Murphy, John 
Murphy, Thomas 
Nesbitl, .lames 
Neugent, Lawri-nce 
Norris, Richard 
C'Brie. , Michael 
O'Dea, James 
O'Donnell, Patrick 
O'Neill, John 
O'Reilly, Thomas D. 
O'Reilly, Panick 
Palmer, .lohn 
Perkins, Matthew 
Philbin, Patrick 
Ponton, Robert 
Powers. John 
Pryor, Ferguson 
Quinn, John 
Rowan, John 
Ryan, Daniel 
Ryan, Joseph 
Smith, Henry 
Smith, .Tames 
Smith, Peter 
Sullivan, .lames, 1st 
Sullivan, James, 2d 
Sexton, Patrick 
Shannon, Patrick 
Ktencune, John 
Scanlan, Joseph 
Sheehan, Coinelius 
Sheehan, .lohn 
Venus, John I* 

* The only Eoglishman by birth 
in the regiment. 



CHRONICLES OP THE REBELLION OP 1861. 



33 



Brothwell, John 
Kelly, Peter 
Smith, Peter 
Sullivan, James, 1st 

PRISONERS AT RICHMONT). 

Captain James Mclver. This 
gentleman joined the regi- 
ment as a private at Wash- 
ington, and a fortnight be- 
fore his arrest was elected 
Captain of Company 1. 



COM PANT K. 

(IRISH ZOUAVBg.) 

Captain, T. F. Meagher. 
1st Lient., E. K. Butler. 
2d " Maurice M. Wall. 
3d " Edmund Connolly. 
1st Sergt., Wm. O Donohue. 
2d '• Jos. T. M. Kelly. 
3d " Michael Kennelly. 
4th " John Breslin. 
5th " William Hogan. 
1st Corpl.. Jo.-^eph O'Donohue. 
2d " John Hillnlpen. 
3d " Clias O'Neill. 
4th " Hubert M. Irwin. 
5th " J. O'Connell Joyce. 
Ist Drammer, D. (IJonnolly. 
2d " Edward Walsh. 

PRIVATES. 

Agnew, Daniel 
Ahern, Cornelias 
Annesly, Wm. 
Barrett. .Fas. Joseph 
Burke, Dennis 
Brown, Francis 
Blake, John 
Byron, Joiin W. 
Beaty, Patriclc 
Byrne, James 



Barry, James 
Byrne, Thos. las. 
Oassidy, Daniel 
Clarke, John C. 
Callahan, Wm. 
Clooney, P. F. 
Cronan, Timothy 
Coll, Patrick 
Clarke, Thomas 
Costello, James 
Connerty, Michael 
Condon, John 
Curry, Michael 
Collins, Daniel 
Collins, Kayniond H. 
Cummines, Wm. 
Carsy, Thomas 
Coyle, Charles 
Duffy, James 
Dowd, Alexander 
Dolphin. Matthew J. 
Dalton, Willi-im 
Dunphy, .John J. 
Devin, William 
Doyle, James 
Devine, James 
Eagan. William 
Fean, John 
Finn, James D. 
Finnen, Kichard 
Fitzgerald, Thomas F. 
Flagherty, Thomas 
Geany, John 
Hayes, Tnomas 
Healy, Patrick 
Healy, Thomas 
Healy, Wm. 
Horan, John 
Hughes, Thomas K. 
Hurly, John (J. 
Kavenagh, John H. 
Kavenagh, Thomas J. 
Kane, James 
Kelly, Daniel 
Kelly, Edward 
Keenan, Michael 
Keyes, Jos'-oh 
Keely, Patrick 



King, Martin 
Kirwin, Edward 
Ledwich, .John 
Lynch, John 
Mahady, Daniel E. 
Maginn, Patrick 
McClosky, Thomas 
McCarthy, Owen 
McDonald, Jamfs 
McGoey, John C. 
McCininn, Michael 
Mortugh, James 
Meagher, James 
Mannix, Michael 
Mnllins, Chas. 
MuUins, William 
Morris, William 
McGnire, .Tolih C. 
O'Brien, James 
O'Brien, Patrick 
O'Brien, Wm. McMahon 
O'Connor, Chas. 
O'Connor, Patrick 
O'Connor. Wm. B. 
O'Keefe, John D. 
O'Keefe, Michael 
O'Meara, P,itrick 
O'Niel, Richard 
Powers, John 
Q,uame, Pierce F. 
Kiely, John 
Rieley, Owen 
Kielly, Chas. 
Ryan, John 
Ryan, Philip J. 
Shaughnessy, Edward 
Smith, John 
Sparks, John 
Spencer, Wm. 
Stanley, Thomas 
Taylor, Robert 
Toland, Edward 
Tracy, Jeremiah 
Warran, Stephen 
Webster, John 
White, Geo. E. 
Whitty, William 
Williams, Chas. 



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chines, BADlA' MADE, are always liable to get out of order, aiil are sure to cost considerable trouble and 
mjney to keep them in repair. 

Tne qualities to be looked for in a Machine are : certainty of correct action at all rates nf Speed, siriiplicili/ 
iif cnii.sCructwn, great durabUttti, anil rapidity of op-rati<in, with, the least tabor. Machines lo combine the.>e 
essential nualitie.', must be made of the best metal a.Qd Jinislied to pTfection. We have the ways and mean.'-, 
on a grand scale, to do this. 

Tiie purchasers of Machine?, whoso daily bread it may cDUcern, will find that those having the above 
•lUililles not only work well at r<ipid, as well as slow rates of speed, but last Inngxn the linest possible work- 
ing order. Our machine.-', as made by us, will earn more mmiey with less labor than any others whether in 
imitation of ours or not. In fact, they are cheaper than any other machines as a gift. 

I. M. SINGER & CO., 458 Broadway, New York. 

OR. R. F. HIBBERO'S molHERRV BITTERS 

gtax %txxm% ^Xtii^wm ami #cucrnl icbiUty. 

■» • ♦■■' — • 

These celebrated Bitters, wjiich have stood the test of years, aro invaluable in the cure of all bil- 
i )us coinplamls, such as fever and ague, jaundice, bilious colic, flatulence and dyspepsia, .nlso 1 a'pi- 
lilioii of me heart, and dizziness of tlie head, as well as in the hectic fever of scrofuK aud consumpnoii. 

This medicine is not only a tonic, but is also a sedative, or an anti-spusiuodic, and has a tendency to 
allay nervous irritations and excitability. 

THE WILD CHERRY BITTERS ARE PREPARED BY 

KUrUS r. IIIBBARD, ^o. 102 FUI.TO.\ STREET, ^EW VOICK. 

FillOB SO CBlSrX3 -A.ISrX> $1 FER, BOXTX^E. 
The following well-known remedies can also be obtained at 102 Fulton Street— 

Jtcv. B. IIibbarir.s Anti-Billoiis Family Tills 1"-J'= anil Zo cents vvv box. 

K. F. llibbard's Circassian Balm .^^ '^'** I'*"" »0«tle. 

Coloi-is Capilli Itestitntor ^j"! " 

lihenniatic JliOtion , 5i5 cts. *' 

Rev. B. Hibbnrd's Carminative Salve -5 cts. •• 

A'l the above manufactured and sold, wholesale and retail, by 

R. F. HIBBARD, 102 Fulton Street, New-York. 



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Entrance, No. 20 ST. MARK'S PLACE. (8th STREET.) 

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The Seventh Regiment Gymnasium is now open to the puMie. 

TEE,lS^S - 

$16 00 Per Year. 

lO 00 Six months 

7 00 Three Moiith<« 

Which entitles the subsci'iber to the free use of the G\inuagium, Running Track, Pal- 
lors, Reading, Billiards, and Chess Eooras, Hot and Cold Baths, and locker with key, ifee. 
No extra charge for joining the Classes. 
'Jentleraen are invited to call and inspect the institution. 

ABNER S. BRADY, Proprietor. 

A. .S. B. will personal]}- attend Classes in Calesthenics and Clyninastics in Schools, 
Colleges, «fec. 



%! J\*ov€lty in the JUedical World: 



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PIEROY'S PATENT PILE PIPE. 



Thia Pipe, iPcently patented, is an entirely new invention, being a mechanical contrivance for the more 
convenient and complete application of curative, sedative and lubricating ointment, in the treatment of 
Piles and other diseases of the rectum : and for these objects it is unsurpassed in simplicity, cleanliness and 
etticiency of operation. The patient can use it himself without assistance, and children can readily under- 
stand it and use it without help. 

It is invaluable in all diseases where applications or ioje3tions are required, but in the treatment 
of Piles especially, with the proper ointments. The most beueflcial results have followed in every instance, 
(^ases of long standirg, after trying every other known remedy, and in some instances pronounced hope- 
Ihss, have experienced immediate relief, and have ultimately been cured. 

Testimonials from Physicians and others who have used the Pipe can be seen at the oflice of the un- 
dersigned. 

3F»I1.I0E: ode* 3F»H=»E $3. 

A liberal discount made to Physicians, Druggists, and wholesale and retail dealers generally. 

Address, HEJ^RY R. PIERCY, 

102 Fulton St., N. Y., and 5 Willoughby St., Brooklyn: 



THE JP^THIOT'S HEFEREE; 

CONTAIMIXG THE 

Declaration of Independence, the Original Articles of Confederation, the 
Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address. 

AM. COMPLETE. AFFORDING TO EVERY ONE A MEANS OF REFERENCE AT 
ONCE KEMABf.K AND CONVENIENT. 

Address, Bos 17-% P. o , N. Y. E. N. CARVALHO, Publisher. 




PROSPECTXTS 



iiiiiiius IF rii iiiULiii 




OF" 1861. 



The xmdorsigned lias the pleasure of intimating that he has maJe arrangements 
for publishing, in Weekly Parts, of Twenty-Four rages Octavo, Priee Ten Cents, a 
a W(irk entitled as nhove. 

Will form a eomplete History of the Secession movement from its commencement, and 
contain every fact and incident of interest during the campaign. 



SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF THE LEADING GENERALS NORTH AND SOUTH 

will be given, and an epitome of all tbe State and National Documents relating to the 
great struggle. 

To render the work a standard of reference in all coming time, it is the intention 
of the undersigned to give in each part 

THE MUSTER ROLL OF ONE REGIMENT, 

who volunteered to fight the battles of their country, and maintain, inviolate, the honor 
and dignity of our National Flag, and the supremacy of the Constitution and Laws of the 
United States. Each Muster Roll will be preceded by a narrative of the march of such 
regiment from its place of enrohnent to the seat of hostilities; iioting with fidelity every 
oecnrence worth}- of mention, and recording every act of devoted loyalty and heroism 
from the colonel down to the humblest private. 

THE MUSTER ROLL OF THE SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT, N. Y. S. M., 

WII.I, UK GIVEN IN THE SEC0M1 rAKT, \VHICU WILL Al'PKAK At CU.-^T 17. 

Determined to spare neither pains nor expense, the undersigned hopes to produce a 
historic work, which will find its way into every dwelling throughout the land. Great 
care will be taken in the Literary Department, and the Typography and Paper sliall be of 
the best class. To all who desire to possess a full and unbiassed description of tbe crisis 
invoked by secession, this book will be witboiit a compear, whilst its moderate price brings 
it within the reach of the poorest of our citizens. 

A limited number of Advertisements will be published on the cover.-;, at moderate 
charges. 

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ^^^^ 




New Tor L 1801. 




JB^- Copyright seciired acr?or<1iug to Act of CoogifSs. 



FUNSTON & SCOFIELD, 62 JOHN STREET. 



There is not a loyal man throughout the leugth and breadth of the land who is not persuaded in his own 
mind that ere the fall fully gets in, Seecessionisin, and with it every trace of rebellion, will be banished from 
the south. As this most welcome period will be ushered in with great rejoicing, we beg to remind the reader 
that among those who contribute to the jovous hilarity of festive seasons is the respected lirm ol Messrs. 
FUNSTUN & SCOFIELD, sole agents for Air. I.ILLIEMOAHI,, that eminent manufacturer of Pyrotechnics. 
They are constantly supplied with all descriptions of Fire Work-;. Some of the designs of this establishment 
have earned for them a re.tutation of excellence which may be imitated but cannot be surpassed. From the 
extensive character of Mr. Lilliendahl's establishment, Messrs. Kuustou i: Sjilleld are prepared at all times 
to fill orders, and to execute designs with promptness and dispatch. Remember their address, 

63 JO|Ii\ STREET, NEW-YORK. 

A Seasonable and a Healthly Beverage ! 

*-~«« • •♦— -^ 

Of the various descriptions and qualities of Ale now produced and put upon the market, that known ai 
" Flemming's Golden Ale" stands the foremost, and as its excellent qualities become more known, it is more 
and more in demand, and univer ally appreciated. That we do not e.xaggerate in the classification of this 
article, ii demonstrated by the fact thai the "Golden Ale" has obtained several first class medals at the State 
fairs in New-York, the judges pronouncing it in every instance composed of the purest ingredients. 
Chemical analysists give it as their opinion that this Ale is a decidedly healthy beverage, and such as should 
find its way into private familie.". It is already sold in wood and in bottles in all the first-class hotels and 
saloons in this city and throughout the country. ItJ excellent qutlitv for keeping at sea renders it desirab'e 
for shipping and ship stores. PIERCE IfKEHAX, sole Agent for this Ale, has his Depot at 158 BROADWAY, 
where it can be had wholesale and retail, in bottle and in wood. We cordially recommend Flemming's 
Goideo Ale, and advise purc|„^sers to give Mr. Skeban a call. 

.^ 13 -V £3 zi o? X s Z3 AX'x: ro* a? s . 

DANIEL CUNNINGHAM, 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN 

FOREIGI^T & DOMESTIC 




if iiiifei^sii^ii'v/ij^MiW m w^MmM' 
No. 11 James Street, 

Comer of New Bowery, NEW YORK, 



VTo. 193 .ll*£j\^rJJE: IS, 

Corner of 12lh Street, nSTE^W^-^X'ODFtK:. 



PETEU McQUADJE, 

VTINE & SPIRIT MERCHANT, 

Liquors of all kinds, and Cigars of the clioiceit quality at lowe it prices, 

&T3RBS. 26 CANAL AND 14 ANN STS. 



STEAM TVEEKLY BETWEEN 



lEW-fORM 

Calling at ^uitnstofan, 




Corfi parior, Irdanb. 



THE LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA 



;TE:^MlMaiP COMiPAKTN 



FULL POWERED, CLYDE BUILT, IRON SCREW STEAMSHIPS 



Tons. 

360 



Captains. 

Petrie. 



CITY OF NEW-YORK, 

CITY OF BALTIMORE, 2367. Jeffrey. 

City of WASHINGTON, 2380. Brooks 

City of MANCHESTER, 2109. Jeilard. 

ETNA, - - - 2215. Kennedy. 



EDINBURGH, 
KANGAROO, 
GLASGOW, - 
VIGO, - - 
BOSPHORUS, 



Tnm. Captains. 

2197. Mirehouse. 
1874. McGuigan 
]962. Roskell 

1953. Roskell. 

448. Halcroiv. 



THE UNDERNOTED OR OTHER VESSELS ARE INTENDED TO .SAIL AS FOLLOWS : 

CITY OF ^\^ASHING^TOISr, Saturday, August 31. 

G-LASG-O^^^, Satiirday, Sept ember 7 th. 

CITY OF BALTIMORE, Saturday, Sept. 14:tli. 

KANOAROO, Saturday, September 21st. 

AND EVERY SATUKDAY, AT NOON. FROM PIER 44, NORTH RIVER. 



RATES ©P PASSA^i. 



First Cabin ^75 

First Cabin to London 80 

do. to Paris §5 



Sleeras:c $30 

Stccragre to L.ondon 33 

do. to Paris 3S 



Steerage Return Tickets, g^ood for 6 nionliis, $60. 

Passeo^ers forwarded to Paris, Havre, Hamburg, Bremen, Rotterdam, Antwerp, &c., at reduced 
through rates 

Pwraons wishing to bring out their fripnds can buy tickets here at 1he following rates to New York ; 
Fao.U L.IV£KPUOJL Oil QUEENSTOWN, FIKST CABIN, §75, »85 and igilOS. 
STEERAGE FKOM LIVERl'OOL,, §i40; FKOI QUEENSTOWN, *30. 

These Steamers have superior accommodations for Passengers, and carry esperienced Surgeons. They 
are built in wtter-tight iron sections, and have patent Fire Annihilators on board. 

For further information, apply in Liverpool to WM. INMAN, Agent, 22 Water St.; in Glasgow, to ALEX. 
MALCOLM, 5 St. Enoch Square ; in Queenstown, to C. k W. D. SEYMOUK & CO.; in I.ondon, to ElVES & 
MACEY, 61 King William St.; in Paris to JULES DECODE, 5 Place de la Bourse; in Philadelphia, to JOHN 
.DALE, 111 Walnut St., or at the Company's Offices, 

JOHN Gr. DALE, Agent, 

15 Broadway, New York. 





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^ooft aab 3oD JJriiUer 

No. XXS NASSAU-STREET, 

Bet. geekman & Ann Sts. IIW ^^ 



NEWSPAPERS, PAMPHLETS, MAGAZINES, POSTERS 
HANDBILLS, PROGRAMMES, CIRCULARS, 
BILL HEADS, LABELS, &C., 

And in fact, everything in the line, from the Largest Book to 
the smallest Card. 



ALL Or?DEES FOR 



^iaM®iieF¥ & Litiiof rapiimi 



EXECUTED WITH DESPATCH ! 



GREAT REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF 

siiiii & ei's sriiiiii iiiiiiii, 

WELL KNOWN TO BE THE BEST FOR MANUFACTURING PURPOSES: 

No. 1, Standard Shuttle Machine, formerly sold at $90, Reduced to $70. 
No. 2, " " " formerly sold at $100, Reduced to $75. 

Is tlii beit Machiue in the world for Family Sewing and Light Manufacturing Purposes: Price, (,witU llem- 
/7icr,) and beaulilully ornamented, $50. 

The Nos. 1 and 2 Machines are of grett capacity and application for manufacturing purposes. 

Our No. 3 Machine< are e.specially adapted to all kinds of light and heavy l,eather Work, in Cariiage 
Trimming, Boot and Shoe Maliing, Harness Making, etc., etc. They are of extra size, with an arm long 
e lOugh to take under it and stitch the largest size dashes. There is scarcely an? pait of a Trimmers' stitch- 
iig that cannot be better done with them than by hand ; so, too, the saving of time and labor is very great. 
The titble of these Machines is 24 inches long,and the shuttle will hold six limes the ujual quantity of thread. 
The large macbines work as fast as small ones. 

We would ask f )r our Lettei" A Machine.'^, the special attention of Vest Makers and Dress Makers, and 
all those who want JIachines for light mannfarturing purpoi^es. They embody the principles of the standard 
midlines, making like tliem, the interlocked ftitch, and are destined to be as celebrated for Family Sewing 
aid li^hl nianufdcturiBg purposes as our standard machines are for manufacturing purposes in general. 

We liRve always on hand, HEMMING GUAGES, SILK TWIST, LINEN & COTTON THREAD. 
ON SPOOLS, BEST MACHINE OIL IN BOTTLES, ETC., ETC. 

We mmufacture our own Needles, and would warn all persons u-iing our michinea not to buy any others. 
We know that there are needles sold o/' tke m.st inferior quality, at higher prices than we charge for the 
6?s< The needles sold by us are manufactu'ed especially for our m:ichines. A bad 7ieedle may render tlie best 
■tn ichine almost useless. 

Our customers m ly rest assured thiit all our Branch Offices are furnished with the "genuine article." 

In cise of sm ill purchases, the money may be sent in postage stamps, or bank notes. 

4®° Correspondents will please write their names distinctly. It is all important that we ehould, in each 
c ise, know the Post Office, County and State. 

J^ff- We have made the above REDUCTION IN PRICES with the two-fold view of benefiting the public 
and Ourselves. The pub ic have been swindled by spuriouj machines made in imitation of ours. The metal 
ia them, from the iron casting to the smallest piece, is of poo» quality. Their makers have not the means 
1 1 do the work well. Tiiey are bid away in secret places, where it would be impossible to have at their 
command the proper mechanical appliances. It is only by doing a great business, and having extensiTe 
m inufaclu' log e-'tablishments, that good machines can be made at moderate prices. The best designed ma- 
chines, BADLY JIADE, are always liable to get out of order, and are sure to cost considerable trouble and 
mjney to keep them in repair. 

The qualities to be looked for in a Macjiine are : certainty of correct action at all rates of speed, simplicity 
of construction, great durability, and rapidity of opnatinn, with, the least labor. Machines to combine these 
e.«8eatial qualities, must be made of the best metal a,adjinished to pt.rfection. We have the ways and means, 
on a grand scale, to do this. 

The purchasers of Machines, whose daily bread it may c3ncerD, will lind that those having the above 
qualities not only woik well at rapid as well as slow rates of speed, but last long in the finest possible work- 
ing order. Our machine.*, as made by us, will earn rnore mrmey with less labor than any others whether in 
imitation of ours or not. In fact, they are cheaper than any other machines as a gift. 

I. M. SIN GER & CO., 458 Broadway, New York. 

m. B.^. rnmao^ wito cherrv bitters 

im f tvxmts Wafeiwss itiid (Sumul irtiUtjj. 

These celebrated Bitters, which have stood the test of years, are invaluable in the cure of all bil- 
i )us complaints, such as fever and ague, jaundice, bilious colic, flatulence and dyspepsia, also jalpi- 
t-Uion of the heart, and dizziness of the head, as well as in 'he hectic fever of scrofuK and consumption. 

This medicine ia not only a tonic, but is also a sedative, or an anti-spasmodic, and has a tendency to 
allay nervous irritations and excitability. 

THE WILD CHERRY BITTERS ARE PREPARED BY 

UUFUS F. HIBB.4LRO, No. 102 FUI.TON, STREET, IVEW ITOKK, 

PltlCB 50 CEI^TS >V.3Sri3 $1 FEE, BOTTLE. 

The following well-known remedies can also be obtained at 102 Fulton Street — 

Kev. B. Ilibbanrs Aiiti-Bilious Family Pills 12H and 85 cents per box. 

K. F. Ilibbard's CircaMsinn Balm • -5 cts. per bottle. 

Coloris Capllli llestitutor §1 " 

Hheiiniatic LiOtioii , '-^5 cts. " 

Uev. B. Ilibbard's Cariiiiuative Salve '^5 cts. ♦* 

A'l the above manufactu'ed and fold, wholesale and retail, by 

R. F. HIBBARD, 102 Fulton StrQ§t, |^ew-York. 



IB R. ja. ID^S"' 




Entrance, No. 20 ST. MARK'S PLACE, (8th STREET.) 



0>^■.^■J^^^^^^^.■^^ ^^^^^mi^>^m:>^>Myw^ 



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The Seventh Ecgiment Gynina.sium is now open to tbe public. 

^16 OO Per Year. 

lO 00 ^. Six moiiili«. 

7 00 Three lUoiitlis. 

Which entitles Ihe subscriber to the free use of the Gymnasium, Running Track, Par- 
lor.i, Heading, Billiards, and Chess Rooms, Hot and Cold Baths,- and locker with key, <tc. 
No extra charge for joining the Classes. 
Gentlemen are invited to call and inspect the institution. 

ABNER S. BRADY, Proprietor. 

A. S B. will personally attend Classes in Calesthenics and Gymnastics in Schools, 
Colleges, &c. 



A ClEfiLlIM <mBM W<i)WL "iME »»lSf 



•1 JVotelty in the •Jfledical World: 



PIBROY'S PATENT PILE PIPE. 



Tbia Pipe, recently patented, is an entirely new invention, being a mechanical contiivance for the moie 
nonvenieut and complete application of curative, pedative and lubiicaiiijg ointment, in tbe tieatment of 
Piles and other diseases of the rectum : and f-T these objects it i« unsu' passed in simplicity, cleanliness and 
efficiency of operation. The patient can use it himself without assistance, and cbildien can readily uLder- 
sland it and use it without help. 

It is invaluable in all diseases where applications or ioje3tions are required, but in the treatment 
of Piles especiiiUy, with the proper ointments. The most beneBcial results have followed in every instance. 
Oases ot long standi' g, after trying every other known remedy, and in some instances pronounced hol)^- 
le IS, have experienced immediate reliff, arid have ultimately been cured. 

Testimonials from Physicians and others who have used the Pipe can be fecn at the office of the un- 
dersigned. 

A libjral discount made to Physicians, Druggists, and wholesale and retail dealers generally. 

Address, HEJ^RY R. PIEKCY, 

102 Fulton St., N. Y., and 5 Willoughby St., Brooklyn- 

THE I^J^lTMOT'S REFEREE; 

CONTAINI.NG THE 

Declaration of Independence, the Original Articles of Confederation, the 
Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address. 

ALL COMPLETE. AFFORDING TO EVERT ONE A MEANS OF REFERENCE AT 
ONCE RELIABLE AND CONVENIENT. 

Address, Box 175, P. 0., N. Y. E. N. CARVALHO, Publisher. 



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